What is the explanation of the Hadith: "If you engage in Bay' al-'Inah (a type of transaction), and grasp the tails of cows (become preoccupied with agriculture), and are content with cultivation (become attached to worldly affairs), and abandon Jihad, Allah will inflict upon you a humiliation that He will not remove until you return to your religion"?
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The Hadith indicates that the Ummah will be afflicted with humiliation if the 'inah transaction (a trick to engage in usury) becomes widespread among them, if they become excessively preoccupied with worldly matters and prioritize them over the Hereafter ("you hold the tails of cattle and are content with cultivation"), and if they abandon jihad in the path of Allah. This humiliation will not be lifted until there is a sincere return to the rulings of the religion and acting upon them.
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