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I learned of evil, not for evil,
but to guard against it.

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Whoever cannot tell evil
from good will fall into it.

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Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (RA) used to say.

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People used to ask the Messenger
of Allah ﷺ about good.

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while I asked him about evil,
for fear that it might reach me.

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No. It is not enough to know good
alone; you must know evil too.

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To avoid it, because if you do not
know evil, you will fall into it.

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I learned of evil, not for evil,
but to guard against it.

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Whoever cannot tell evil
from good will fall into it.

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So know: this is what
Hudhayfah (RA) intended.

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When he asked about evil,
it was not out of love for evil.

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Rather, it was so it would become
clear to him what he should do.

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In this situation.

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I used to ask him about evil. Why?
For fear it might befall me.

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Then the Prophet ﷺ mentioned to him
what decline and division would come.

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Hudhayfah (RA) asked,
What should I do if that happens to me?

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He said: Adhere to the Muslim community
and its imam.

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Adhere to the Muslim community
and its imam.

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If strife and division occur.

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And there is talk among the people
as is happening now.

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Then adhere to the imam
and the Muslim community.

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So you may be saved from it.

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Adhere to the Muslim community
and its imam.

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Hudhayfah (RA) said, O Messenger
of Allah, what if no community or imam?

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Meaning, there is division,
and there is no community or imam.

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He said, Then keep away
from all those factions.

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"Even if you bite onto
the root of a tree and die that way."

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This shows that a person
should not enter fitan.

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As much as he can,
he should avoid them.

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He does not enter fitan.
Rather, he keeps away from them.

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Under any circumstance,
he does not enter them.

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That is safer for him,
and it is done in one of two ways.

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If there is a Muslim community
and an imam for the Muslims.

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then let him be with them
to be saved from evil and discord.

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The second case is when there is
no community and no imam.

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There is no might nor power
except with Allah ﷻ.

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So the solution is to avoid
fitan and its people, to save yourself.

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Even if some harm touches
you yourself, even then.

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"Even if you must bite a tree root
until death comes to you in that state."

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In short, the Muslim should note this.