who provides for us.

In summary, Allah the Exalted has made it clear that blame rests upon those who wrong people and commit baghy (transgression) on earth without right. The author then cites the ḥadīth of ʿIyāḍ ibn Ḥimār in which the Prophet ﷺ said, “Allah has revealed to me that no one should transgress against another.” This is the pertinent part of the ḥadīth, and it shows that baghy is a grave matter to which Allah has given special attention, making plain to His servants that no one should oppress anyone else and that each person should humble himself before Allah and before the truth.

Allah alone grants success.

1590 – ʿAbū Hurayrah ⦗may Allah be pleased with him⦘ reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If a man says, ‘The people are ruined,’ he is the most ruined of them.” Muslim narrated it.

The widely accepted wording reads ahlakuhum with the pronoun in the nominative, while another version has it in the accusative.

This prohibition applies to the one who makes such a statement out of self-admiration, belittling the people and elevating himself above them; that is what is forbidden. But if someone says it because he observes people’s shortcomings in matters of religion, and he says it out of sorrow for them and for the faith, then there is no harm in it.

That is how the scholars have interpreted and detailed the issue. Among the eminent imams who held this view are Mālik ibn Anas, al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Ḥumaydī, and others. I have explained it further in my book Al-Adhkār.