وَإِذَا تَوَلَّىٰ سَعَىٰ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ ٱلْحَرْثَ وَٱلنَّسْلَ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْفَسَادَ
Wa izaa tawallaa sa'aa fil ardi liyufsida feeha wa yuhlikal harsa wannasl; wallaahu laa yuhibbul fasaad
And when he goes away, he strives throughout the land to cause corruption therein and destroy crops and animals. And Allah does not like corruption.
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And when he turns his back leaving you behind he hastens he walks about the earth to do corruption there and to destroy the tillage and the stock these last two actions are included in such ‘corruption’; and God loves not corruption that is to say it does not please Him.
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“Whoever takes people's wealth with the intention of destroying it, Allah (SWT) will destroy him.”
“When
Allah wants to destroy a person, He takes away modesty from him, you
will only see him with the wrath of Allah upon him, and he will be
hated by people. When you only see him with the wrath of Allah upon
him, and hated by people, then honesty will be taken away from him,
and when honesty is taken away from him, you will only see him as a
traitor who is called such by others. When you only see him as a
traitor who is called such by others, then mercy will be taken away
from him, and when mercy is taken away from him, you will only see
him
as rejected and accursed, and when you only see him as rejected
and
accursed, then the bond of Islam will be taken away from him.”
He who intends to do harm to its people (he meant Medina), Allah would efface him as salt is dissolved in water. Ibn Hatim (one of the narrators) substituted the word" harm" for" mischief".
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a ruler seeks to make imputations against the people, he corrupts them.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Do not go out much when there are few people about , for Allah the Exalted scatters abroad of His beasts in that hour (according to Ibn Marwan's version).
Ibn Marwan's version has: For Allah has creatures. He then mentioned the barking of dogs and braying of asses in a similar manner. He added in his version: Ibn al-Had said: Shurahbil ibn al-Hajib told me on the authority of Jabir ibn Abdullah from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) similar to it.
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