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when I executed my duty of propagating the message. I praise Allah for that just as the Prophets have sang His praise, and as everything before me has praised Him, an whatever he is to create until the day of judgement.
He (the narrator) has reported this tradition in al-Bihar Muhammad b Yahya from Ahmad b Muhammad from the companions of Ali b Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abu Umayr all of them reporting from Muhammad b Abu Hamzah from Hamran from Abu Abdullah (sa) (in a long hadith in which he mentioned some of the things that shall manifest among people; evil deeds, innovation [bid'ah], and fitnah), he said: When you see that truth is dead and its proponents and finished, and you see that transgression has spread on earth, and you see that the Qur'an has been adulterated/fabricated and things that are not part of it are invented in it and it is directed towards vain desires, and you see that din [the Muslim way of life] has evaporated just as water evaporate, and the proponents of falsehood have overpowered the proponents of truth, and you see manifest evil which is not prevented and its proponents are justified and excused, and you see transgression manifesting itself, men sufficing themselves with men, and women with women, and you see that a believer is silent and his word is not considered while the transgressor can lie and his lie and concocted words are not rejected, and you see that the young look down upon the old, and you see that the family ties have been broken, and you see the one that glorifies evil being laughed at and his word is not rejected, and you see the young boy being given the same given to a woman, and women marrying women and you see women increasing in number, man spending his wealth in other ways than the obedience of Allah and while he is not prevented or stopped, and you will see the onlooker seeking Allah's protection from the believer's hardworking/striving/ independent reasoning, and you see the neighbour harming his neighbour and no one stops him, and you see the disbeliever happy from the happiness he sees in the believer who rejoices at the corruption he sees on land, and you see alcohol being consumed openly while people who have no fear of Allah will gather around it, and you see the one who enjoins good being humiliated, and you see the one transgressing in what Allah arbours enjoying power and being praised, and you see those calling towards verses [in another manuscript, Traditions] and those who supports and love them being humiliated, and you see the path of good being blocked while the path of evil being followed, when the house of Allah has been neglected and people are ordered to leave it, and you see a man saying what he does not do, and you see man fattening themselves ( gaining weight) to attract other men, and women to attract other women, and you see that the source of a man's sustenance is his anus and that of a woman is her private part, and you see women frequenting public gatherings the same way men do, and you see that gender bending is common among the sons Abbas and dyeing is common while they comb their hair in the same way a woman make up for her husband, and men are given wealth for their private parts, and the rich is respected more than the believer and interest is strife and cannot be changed, and a woman is praised for her promiscuity, and you see a woman encouraging her husband to have sex with other men, and you see most of the people and even those from noble families assisting women in their promiscuous
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