of anyone, nor is anyone exempt from it. It is accompanied by rejecting wrongdoing in the heart—which is the weakest level of faith—unlike the other kind.

What Ibn Mas‘ūd said has also been reported from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the hadith of Abū Tha‘laba al-Khushanī, who said: “By Allah, I asked someone who knew about it: I asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said: ‘Rather, enjoin one another to do what is right and forbid one another from doing what is wrong, until, when you see greed obeyed, desires followed, worldly life preferred, everyone admiring his own opinion, and a state of affairs that cannot be avoided, then attend to yourself and leave the affairs of the public alone. Ahead of you lie days requiring patience. Whoever remains patient during them will be like someone grasping burning embers. Whoever does good deeds during them will have the reward of fifty men doing the same deeds.’”

Another version reads: “Fifty of you”—meaning the equivalent of that deed when performed in the time of