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43. It was narrated from 'Abdur-Rahmân bin 'Amr As-Sulami that he heard Al-'Irbâd bin Sâriyah say: "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ delivered a moving speech to us which made our eyes flow with tears and made our hearts melt. We said: 'O Messenger of Allâh, this is a speech of farewell. What do you enjoin upon us?' He said: 'I am leaving you upon a (path of) brightness whose night is like its day. No one will deviate from it after I am gone but one who is doomed. Whoever among you lives will see great conflict. I urge you to adhere to what you know of my Sunnah and the path of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and cling
stubbornly to it. And you must obey, even if (your leader is) an Abyssinian slave. For the true believer is like a camel with a ring in its nose; wherever it is driven, it complies.” (Sahih)
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Commentary
Deviating from the teachings of the Shari'ah is tantamount to inviting one's own destruction and doom.
A true believer faithfully submits to the rules of Shari'ah even though it might seem difficult to do so. The reason why a believer is compared to a camel is because it (the camel) obeys the command of the master, even though the going might be tough for it.
History is witness that, even as the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ had foretold, wide-ranging conflicts raised their head in the community after the expiry of the first three centuries. New sects and deviant groups took their birth. Each one adopted its own leader or locus of following, although the Prophet ﷺ had instructed that should there arise any conflict, the community was to adhere to his Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs.
