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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 35 ] of arguing and fighting with each other, we should turn our attention to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. We should ask him, ‘O, our beloved leader, your ummah is in great pain. You tell us who is responsible for this dissension, and who is spreading poison among the Muslim people, and who is creating discord, because of which every joint in the Muslim ummah is hurting?’ Hadrat ‘Abdull a h bin ‘Amr narrates the following h ad i th: The Holy Prophet sa said: ‘My ummah will face the same conditions as the Children of Israel have faced. The similarity will be so complete that it is like one shoe of a pair resembling the other. If someone among the Children of Israel had committed adul- tery with his mother, there will also be a wretched one in my ummah to do the same. The Children of Israel were divided into seventy-two sects, but my ummah will be divided into seventy-three. All will be hell-bound except one. ’ The Companions ra asked which sect this would be. The Holy Prophet sa answered: ‘The sect that will follow me and my Companions. ’ (1. Tirmadh i , Abw a b-ul- I m a n, B a bo Iftir a qi H a zihil-Ummate wal-J a mi‘u s - S agh ir [chap- ter ‘Divisions in the Ummah ’. 2. al-J a mi‘u s - S agh ir’] 2/110 Ma s r i ) The Root Cause of Evil among Muslims Here, corruption has been mentioned in general by describing that the Muslim ummah will become somewhat