کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

The West is blind

Abdul Quddus and Amr bin Al-Harith told us, they said: Abdullah bin Salem Al-Homsi told us, on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talha, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “Allah Almighty created the world in the position of a bird, so He made the two wings the east and the west, and He made the head the Levant, and He made the top of the head hummus, and in it is the beak, and if the beak decreases, the people disagree, and He made the neck Damascus, and in it is the heart, so if the heart moves, the body moves, and the head has two blows: a blow from the wing.” The eastern wing is on Damascus, and a blow is from the western wing and it is on Homs, and it is the heaviest of them. Then the head approaches the wings and plucks them out, feather by feather.”

The head of the earth is the Levant, its wings are Egypt and Iraq, the tails are the Hijaz, and the goshawks are skinned on the tails.

The people still have a period of time until the head knocks, and if the head knocks, the people will perish, and the Levant will be devastated

The earth will be destroyed forty years before the Levant

I wished that every pearl on the face of the earth had become tar. People do not stop until they take sheep, milk them, and compete over them, until when they become numerous, they leave the cities, communities, and mosques, and flock to them. Allah has not sent a prophet, nor appointed a caliphate, nor a king except among the people of the villages and the civilization, and they did not aspire to place them among the people of the pillars or the Bedouins, so if Allah sees their desire for the groups and mosques, Allah will send to them what their right hands possess. People who speak to them in Arabic, and beat them with the Musharrafiyya until they return to the congregation and the mosques. Do not take too much captivity of the Persians. If I were to control the captives in your hands, I would kill nine out of every ten. And look at the remaining ten, then exile them to Wadi Al-Shajar, or Wadi Al-Arj, or Wadi Al-Junir. By Allah, if they remain yours, He will make life easier for you.

Ibn Ayyash said: Dawud bin Abd al-Rahman told me, on the authority of Qais bin Asim al-Thaqafi, on the authority of Ibn al-Musayyab, he said: I said: If you went out and wandered with your people? He said: Allah forbid that I abandon the twenty-five and one hundred prayers for five prayers. Then Saeed said: I heard Ka’b al-Ahbar say: “I wish this milk were tar.” It was said: Why that? He said: The Quraysh followed the tails of camels into the paths, and Satan is with the one, and he is further away from the two.

If you see the Arabs being negligent in the matter of the Quraysh, then you see the followers being negligent in the matter of the Arabs, then you see the Muslim lands being negligent in the matter of the Quraysh, then the signs of the Hour have overtaken you.

The belly of the earth on that day is better than its surface

If that is the case, then seek a place for yourself in peace and free time, like the ant’s shelter for its winter, and let it be in what is beautiful and not known for it. And protect yourself from that and other things, the city and its surroundings of the Hijaz, and the coasts are safer than others.

Homs is among the soldiers whose martyr will intercede for the seventy, and the people of Damascus are known for wearing green clothes in Paradise, and the people of Jordan are among the soldiers who will be in the shadow of the throne on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Palestine are among those whom Allah looks at twice every day.

The martyr of the people of Homs will intercede for seventy thousand, and the people of Damascus will be covered by Allah with green clothes on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Jordan will be shaded by Allah in the shade of His throne, and the people of Palestine will be looked at three times every day by Allah.

Damascus is the Muslim stronghold of the Romans, and a bull’s paddock there is better than a great house in Homs. And whoever wants to be saved from the Dajjal is the Abu Fatrus River, and if you want the home of the caliphs, then you should go to Damascus, and if you want effort and jihad, then you should go to Homs, the stronghold of the Muslims from the epics, Damascus, and from the Dajjal, there is the Abu Fatros River, and from Gog and Magog, you should go to Damascus.

You have been overshadowed by a trial like pieces of a dark night. There is not a Muslim house left between the East and the West without entering it. Those who take shelter in the shade of Lebanon between it and the sea will be saved from it. He is the safest of people from that trial. If one hundred and twenty-two years have passed, this house of mine burned, and his house burned at that time.

The most beloved of Jerusalem to Allah is Mount Nablus. There will come a time when people will touch it with ropes between them

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If a man from the Abbasids called Abdullah reigns, and he is the one with the Eye of the Hereafter among them, with it they open it and with it they seal it, then he is the key to the sword of annihilation. If a letter is read for him in the Levant: From Abdullah Abdullah Commander of the Faithful, you will soon be informed of a letter that has been read on the pulpit of Egypt: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman Commander of the Faithful. If that happens, the people of the East and the people of the West will rush to the Levant as a betting horse, seeing that the kingship will not be fulfilled. Except for those who control the Levant, everyone says: Whoever conquers it has captured the kingdom.”

The West is blind, and its people are barren and naked. They do not follow Allah as a religion. They trample the earth as cows trample a threshing floor. So seek refuge in Allah lest you reach it.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If the Berbers left and settled in Egypt, there would be two incidents between them: an encounter in Egypt, and an encounter in Palestine, and in between that until they descended on Homs, so woe to it from them. They would be struck by heavy snow for forty nights there, almost annihilating them, then they would open it and enter it, and they would exit from it between the west and the arch in the middle of the market, then they would travel from it and descend. By Lake Famiyeh or a farsang below it, then people go out against them and kill them. Their leader is a man from the descendants of Ismail. They are killed in a village called Umm al-Arab, then a rebel rises up and kills the freedom, takes captive the offspring, and rips open the stomachs of the women. He defeats the group twice, then he is destroyed. And you will slaughter a woman from the Quraysh, and in it the stomachs of any of the women of Bani Hashim will be ruptured.”

The people of the Levant converted to Islam, and the happiest of its soldiers with the yellow banners were the people of Damascus, and the most miserable of the people of the Levant and its soldiers were the people of Homs. They will flood the Levant as water floods a water bottle.

By the One in whose hand is my soul, the barbarians will destroy Homs in the last two battles, the last of which will remove the nails from the doors of its people, and they will have a confrontation in Palestine, then they will march from Homs to Lake Famieh or a league below it, and an outsider will emerge against them and kill them.

Abu Yusuf al-Maqdisi told us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah, on the authority of Yazid ibn Sindi, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “When the west appears over Egypt, the interior of the earth on that day is better than its surface for the people of the Levant. Woe to the two soldiers: the soldiers of Palestine and Jordan, and the soldiers of the land of Homs, of Berbers striking with their swords at a door for perfume, and the companion of the west is a lame man from Kinda.”

Baqiyya told us, on the authority of Al-Ahmusi, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The Berbers disembark from the galleys, then they go out with their swords and wait until they enter Homs, and I heard that their slogan on that day was: Oh Homs, oh Homs.”

If the Berbers leave Homs to Famiyah, Allah will deport them, and send a disease on their animals, so that nothing of them will remain except that they die. Then He exiles them with death and stomachs, so they flee to the east of the Black Mountain to hide there. Then the Muslims follow them and kill them with great slaughter, to the point that one man among them can kill seventy of them, or less than that, and only a few of them will escape.

If you see the yellow flags descending on Alexandria, then descending on the center of Syria, then a village in Damascus called Harasta will be eclipsed.

Let the people of Egypt divide the mountains with ropes between them, because their access will be limited or extended and drown them