The Ummah’s Sole Way to Salvation: Al-Firqah Al-Najiyyah Our
Prophet (saas) stated, “My ummah will divide into seventy-three
sects. And all of them will belong to Hell except for one (which
will belong to Paradise): the one that will follow the path on
which I walk and my Companions walk” (al-Tirmidhi). This hadith
carries a special importance today, as it guides the believers.
If we look at human history, we see that when the words of
Allah’s (swt) messengers were ignored, the result was always
pain, privation, and failure. So long as Muslims do not fully
adhere to the Qur’an and the Sunnah, which shows how to apply
the Qur’an to one’s life, the Islamic world will have failures
and helplessness. In order not to be among those whose faces
will turn black and bitter on the Day of Judgment, but among
those whose faces will gaze full of light upon our Lord, Muslims
have to follow the Qur’an and the path taken by the Messenger of
Allah (saas). Prophet Muhammad (saas) said that our time, called
the “End Times,” wi