The Prophet ﷺ once said:

"The best people are those of my generation, then those who come after them, then those who come after them. Then, there will come people after them whose testimony precedes their oaths and their oaths precede their testimony."

Each generation carries less of what the previous one had - less certainty, less integrity, less commitment to truth. The Prophet ﷺ is not saying later generations are worthless. He is warning us: as time goes on, truthfulness becomes rarer.

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