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I command you with five things that Allah has commanded me: listening, obedience, jihad, migration and staying in the congregation. Because whoever separates himself from the congregation by just an inch (ie apostasy / exits from Islam) then he really has removed his Islamic status from his neck unless he returns.
h107
I testify to you about my companions (so that you respect them / take care of them). You should stay in the congregation, beware of division. For the devil is with one who is alone and with two he is farther away. Whoever wants a high heaven, then he should live in the congregation.
h108
Allah does not gather my people in perpetual error. The hand of Allah (i.e. his help) is always on the congregation.
h109
Do not disagree. because those before you differed and they perished.
h110
The Jews were divided into seventy-one groups. Christians are like that, into seventy-two groups. My Nation will divide into seventy-three sects.
h107
I testify to you about my companions (so that you respect them / take care of them). You should stay in the congregation, beware of division. For the devil is with one who is alone and with two he is farther away. Whoever wants a high heaven, then he should live in the congregation.
h108
Allah does not gather my people in perpetual error. The hand of Allah (i.e. his help) is always on the congregation.
h109
Do not disagree. because those before you differed and they perished.
h110
The Jews were divided into seventy-one groups. Christians are like that, into seventy-two groups. My Nation will divide into seventy-three sects.