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DISAPPEARANCE OF TRUST

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“The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, told us two things, one of which I (Huzaifah) have seen fulfilled, and of the other I am still waiting.

He told us that trust is embedded in the hearts of mankind. Then the Koran was sent down and they learned about it from the Koran and from his practice.

Then he told us about the disappearance of trust saying: ‘A man will go to sleep and his trust will be lifted from his heart leaving only a mark on his heart like a blister, similar to a mark left by a spark of fire on the skin of your foot. It inflates but is empty inside.’

Then he took a pebble and started throwing it towards his foot and continued: ‘People will go on buying and selling, but not one of them will be a trustworthy man, to the extent that it will be said: Among such and such a tribe there is one man who is trustworthy. Of the man of the world it will be said how clever, handsome and intelligent he is; yet he will not have a grain of faith in his heart that would amount to a mustard seed. “

Huzaifah added: "There was a time when I did not mind with whom I did business, if he was a Muslim then his faith was a sufficient guarantee, and if he was a Jew or a Christian his guardian sufficed as guarantor. However, today I do not do business except with so and so."

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Huzaifah, son of Yaman who related this.