An Islamic Treasury of Virtues
14. Unity
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14. UNITY
IN LATTER DAYS FRATERNAL STRIFE WILL BE
THE GREATEST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE
Eight years after the Battle of Uhud, the Prophet
visited the site of the battle and prayed for the
martyrs. His prayer was as one about to leave the
land of the living. Then he ascended the pulpit and
said: “I shall be the first to reach the
hauz
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I bear
witness before you that we shall meet at the
hauz,
which I can see from this very place. By God, I do
not fear that when I am gone you will set up others
beside God. What I do fear is that greed for worldly
things will make you fight among yourselves: that
is what will destroy you as it destroyed those
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before you.
(AL-BUKHARI, MUSLIM)
Note:
7. A reservoir of water in the Heaven for the
believers.
8. People of the Book.
