Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, a time would come when the murderer would not know why he has committed the murder, and the victim would not know why he has been killed. (sahih muslim #6949)
It does apply to today's day and age doesn't it?
And so it must mean that the end of times is near to us right? But as something to contemplate, consider that Ibn Hazm, one of the great scholars in Islam who lived a few centuries after the prophet and died 1064, used the very same hadith to explain what was happening in his day and age. Specifically, he says,
... sometimes they fight Zayd on Amr's account, and sometimes they fight Amr on Zayd's account, sometimes both in the same day, exposing themselves needlessly to danger, hurtling towards hellfire or running towards dishonour. About such people the Messenger of Allah (peace by upon him) has warned: "There will come a time for men when the one who kills will not know why he has killed, and his victim will not know why he was killed" (al akhlaq wa siyar #90)
so Ibn Hazm saw the relevance of this hadith in his day and age which was over a thousand years ago.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that we see meaning in things where perhaps such meaning does not exist. It shows that humans are very good at applying and contextualizing text in their specific situations and hence text and specifically hadith can be applied pretty easily in a variety of situations. Finally, it teaches us that only God knows the truth of many things and such and such a scholar, using this or that hadith to justify an opinion is just that - an opinion and not coming from God and one should feel free to form one's own conclusions based on a variety of sources as none of the opinions are really from God, but from the minds of scholars. They are 'best attempts' at the truth, rather than the truth itself and there are many such conflicting 'best attempts' from a variety of scholars.
I would highly recommend folks to read books by Dr. Brown to understand this point to the fullest.
btw, this is a re-post but I feel muslims would benefit from this message, that someone saying its the end of days because of Corvid doesn't actually know it for sure.
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