It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What will be your state when a trial envelops you in which the old will grow older and the young will grow up, and the people will adopt it (that trial) as a Sunnah (an established practice), so that whenever any change is made to it, they will say that the Sunnah has been changed?" It was said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman, when will that be? He said: "When your reciters (of the Qur'an) are many but your jurists (those with deep understanding of the religion) are few, your rulers are many but the trustworthy people are few, and when the world is sought through the deeds of the Hereafter."