What is the degree and interpretation of the Hadith: "O company of Muhajireen: There are five (things) with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah that you live to see them: Immorality never appears in a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases unknown to their forefathers will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, hardship, and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakat of their wealth but rain will be withheld from them from the sky; and were it not for the animals, they would not be given rain. They do not break the covenant of Allah and the covenant of His Messenger but Allah will enable an enemy from outside their ranks to overpower them and seize some of what is in their hands. And unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and choose what Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another"?
The Hadith indicates five punishments that afflict people when they commit certain sins: the spread of plagues and diseases previously unknown when indecencies become widespread; affliction with drought, scarcity, high prices, and the injustice of rulers when there is short-changing in measures and weights; the cessation of rain if zakat is withheld; the dominance of enemies over Muslims, seizing their wealth and lands, when they break the covenant of Allah and His Messenger; and the occurrence of internal wars and some dominating others when rulers abandon governing by the Book of Allah.
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