“Whoever killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not smell the smell of Paradise though its smell is perceived from a distance of forty years.”

“Whoever killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not smell the smell of Paradise though its smell is perceived from a distance of forty years.”
Allāh tests his slaves with defeats and trials, in order to distinguish between the believer and the hypocrite, because if the believers were to be victorious continuously in all events, then even those who did not want it would enter Islam. So if in some incidents, some types of trials were to occur, the believer who truly desires Islam in prosperity and adversity, in ease and in hardship, will become distinct from those who are not like that.
As lockdowns were announced due to the pandemic, a Ḥadīth regarding the reward of martyrdom for the one who remains at home, has been widely circulated. The Shaykh clarifies regarding it’s condition.
Is the war of the Saudi Coalition against the Houthis of Yemen only a political war for worldly gains? Is it a proxy-war being fought with the Rāfidhī state of Iran? Is it a war between Islam and Kufr?
Shaykh ʿAbdus-Salām as-Suḥaimī throws light on the reality of the corrupted beliefs of the Houthis.