Sinning in the Time of Calamities
It is reported that Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr – Allāh be pleased with him – said during a sermon he was delivering in Homs:
Total destruction lies in doing bad deeds during a time of calamity and tribulation.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-ʿUqūbāt article 327.
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People are only ever equal when they are all as ignorant as each other or as bad as each other.
A warning from the Companion Muadh b. Jabl about corrupt and ignorant times and the state of some people in those times.