It is narrated from Abdullah Ibn Mas’ood that he said:
“There will come a time upon the people wherein a believer will be more humiliated than a slave woman — the astute among them will swerve and evade with his religion (to safeguard it) like the swerving and evading of a fox.”
Az-Zuhd of Abu Dawood (176)
روي عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رضي اللهُ عنهُ، أنّهُ قَالَ:
«يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ الْمُؤْمِنُ فِيهِ أَذَلُّ مِنَ الْأَمَةِ، أَكْيَسُهُمُ الَّذِي يَرُوغُ بِدِينِهِ رَوَغَانَ الثَّعَالِبِ».
[«الزهد» لأبي داود (١٧٦)]
Al-Hāfidh Ibn Rajab said:
“The humiliation of the believer at the end of time will be due to his strangeness [in living] among corrupt people from the people of doubts and desires — all of them dislike him and harm him because his path opposes their path, his goal opposes their goal, and due to him being distinct and separate from that which they are upon.”
Kashf al-Kurbah ‘an Hāli Ahlil Ghurbah (1/322) in his Majmoo’ ar-Rasā’il.
