The Obligation of Turning to Allah and Supplicating to Him When Calamities Befall
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are many questions. We hope that you will graciously offer a word of guidance to the Muslims in general regarding what happened today in most of the lands, namely the severe winds and the great dust.
Answer:
There is no doubt that what happened today, and we fear it may recur or that something more severe may occur, is a punishment without a doubt[Ash-Shuraa 42:30]. We have many causes for punishment and retribution, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. We repent to Allah the Exalted, and we advise one another to repent, supplicate, and turn to Allah the Exalted, lest something more severe befall us, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are many questions. We hope that you will graciously offer a word of guidance to the Muslims in general regarding what happened today in most of the lands, namely the severe winds and the great dust.
Answer:
There is no doubt that what happened today, and we fear it may recur or that something more severe may occur, is a punishment without a doubt
And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.
وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1785 -2802] وجوب الرجوع إلى الله والضراعة إليه عند نزول المصائب - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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