Is it correct to say that all the earthquakes and hurricanes that befall the world are due to the sins of the people?
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May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it correct to say that all the earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanoes that befall the Islamic and Western worlds are due to the sins of the people?
Answer:
Without a doubt, this is the case. Whoever doubts this has no faith. Whoever doubts that the calamities befalling the world are due to sins and disbelief has no faith, may Allah protect us from that.[Ash-Shuraa 42:30] This is the word of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. [Ar-Rum 30:41] Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it correct to say that all the earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanoes that befall the Islamic and Western worlds are due to the sins of the people?
Answer:
Without a doubt, this is the case. Whoever doubts this has no faith. Whoever doubts that the calamities befalling the world are due to sins and disbelief has no faith, may Allah protect us from that.
And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned
وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْCorruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].
ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعْضَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2775- 4717] هل يصح القول بأن كل ما يصيب العالم من الزلازل والأعاصير هو بسبب ذنوب العباد؟ — youtube.com
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