The Proliferation of Diseases and the Rise in Prices in These Days: What Is Your Advice to Muslims?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: You are aware of what is happening now, namely the high prices and the withholding of rain, and finally this disease that has swept through the birds. Is there a word by which you remind the heedless and advise the Muslim community?

Answer:
Without a doubt, these are punishments from Allah and warnings, so it is obligatory for Muslims to repent to Allah and to rectify their affairs, because these things did not befall them except because of their sins. It is feared that more than this may befall them, but Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is alerting them with these matters and these signs so that they repent to Allah and rectify their affairs.
Their affairs: every person has the obligation of rectification. It is obligatory for you to rectify in your home, in your country, with your neighbors, and with the one in authority; it is obligatory for him to rectify. It is obligatory for the scholars to rectify. Among Muslims, every person has the obligation of whatever rectification he is able to do. So do not place the blame on others, but rather you should rectify, strive in rectification and advice and admonition, and remind people.