Allah may hasten the good things of this world for the people of disbelief and delay their punishment until the Day of Resurrection

The questioner : Salim, some people think about matters, saying that earthquakes and wars are more common in the lands of the Muslims than in the lands of the disbelievers.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : What appears from this is that they have left them to their religion. But what are you talking about, O Shaykh? What is your speech regarding this statement, O Shaykh? I would like you to speak about this statement, and he said that the disbelievers are prisoners with one another, and that earthquakes do not come to them, and that trials do not come to them, and that they…

The Shaykh : First, who told you that? I am asking, who said that they do not come to them, meaning that they do not have earthquakes? I am asking you now.

The questioner : I am sitting thinking, some people are like this.

The Shaykh : O Khalid, we say, O Salim, we say: First, what makes you know that the lands of disbelief do not have earthquakes?

The questioner : They are the ones who say it.

The Shaykh : Be patient. This is one point. The second point: if it is established that they do not have earthquakes, we say that their punishment has been delayed to the Hereafter, and their good things have been hastened for them in this world. Do not the Islamic lands experience drought, a lack of rain, and other calamities of this world, while these do not come to them?