God's Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace),
revealed to us that, in the End Times, some people acknowledged
as scholars will actually be two-faced impostors:
Wolves will give
readings in the End Times. Let those who come to see
those times seek shelter from their evil in God. They
will be very corrupt people. Hypocrisy will prevail,
and nobody will be ashamed of it and its manifestations.
(Tirmidhi Hadiths)
God's Messenger (may
God bless him and grant him peace) said, "In
the End Times men will come forth who will fraudulently
use religion for worldly ends and wear sheepskins
in public to display meekness. Their tongues will
be sweeter than sugar, but their hearts will be the
hearts of wolves." (Tirmidhi Hadiths)
He said “In mosques,
the voices of those who rebel to God rise and those
who commit those deeds prohibited by religion hold
control over sincere believers.” (Mukhtasar Tazkirah
Qurtubi, p.450, no.828)
Ultimately some ignorant
people remain. When they are asked about religious
issues, they give fatwa (juridical decision) although
they are illiterate. This way, they pervert and also
make others stray from the right path. (Mukhtasar
Tazkirah Qurtubi, p.463, no.850)
What a pity to my
community because of the pervert scholars! These are
the people who make religion a matter of commerce.
They approach to the chiefs of their time to earn
their living. (al-Hatim; Gelecegin Tarihi 1 (The History
of Future 1), p.27)
A time will come
when everyone will read the Qur’an, perform their
acts of worship and meanwhile, engage in bid’a (innovation
in worship that must be avoided). Yet little they
know that they become idolaters in a way they are
unaware and they earn money in return for their reading
and knowledge and consume the time of this life in
return for the religion. These will become the followers
of the blind Antichrist. (ad-Daylami, Gelecegin Tarihi
1 (The History of Future 1), p.27)
Those people are described who show no respect for the
laws of Islam and who do not hesitate to use religion as
a means for their own profit:
In the End Times
of the community of the faithful, people, those who
adorn the mosques but leave their own hearts in ruins,
who fail to look after their religion as much as they
do their clothes, who forsake their religious obligations
for the sake of their activities in this world, will
increase in number. (al-Hakim)
