Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Signs of the Last Day Series The Great Fire of Medina
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Bismillah Al Rahman and Rahim Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. in
Hamden Cathedral on the yuan Mubarak confy him about a Kannada
he can make your way out of La Jolla, La Jolla of Juan Manuel was
Salatu was Salam ALA. So you will have even Mustafa SallAllahu
Diodati you either leave your Safi or Baraka was seldom at the
Sleeman. Kathy, you're on laomi been murdered. The last time we
covered the destruction by the Tatas. And through that, the
ending of that I busted Kenny for caliphate. Now, two years before
that, before the belief of before the Khalifa of the last Khalifa of
the Ambassade Empire, was killed by the Tatas, as we explained last
week, two years before that, a major incident took place. And
this incident was something that would
later and at the time, something that really was very striking, in
the sense of it being a miracle, a miracle in a number of ways.
Firstly, it was something that over 600 years before that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had said it would take
place, and it was such a statement that seemed to be an incredible
statement. But when it took place, it was completely confirmed what
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam had said, and then when it
took place, when this incident took place, within it, there were
other miracles that inshallah we will discuss as well. So it's a
very, very significant event in our history, which unfortunately,
many people don't even know about. In fact, today, many of those who
live in Madina Munawwara may not know about it.
They pass by the area where this took place, but they don't really
know what's behind what they actually see from maybe the
highway or the motorway. Firstly, this hadith is the one of the main
Hadith with regards to this incident is related by Imam
Buhari, and Imam Hakeem in mustard rock and others as well and from
Abu Huraira to the Allah Juan. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said lots of cool Musa had the raja na Roman or the ages to
do inocle ebtb Busara HeMan Buhari and Hakim relate from Abu Huraira
the hola Juan the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that the day of judgment, the last hour will not arrive until a fire
will erupt until a fire will erupt from the land of hijas. From the
land of hijas, which will illuminate the necks of the camels
of Busara. Just to give you an understanding Busara This is not
bus or bus rise in Iraq. Busara is in Sham, it's south of Damascus.
It's about 600 and something kilometers away from Madina
Munawwara. That's about 400 miles or something so many 100 miles
away, this fire would be so great, so high and so fearsome, that it
would illuminate the next of the camels of Busara, which is in the
south of Damascus in Syria. That's about 600 kilometres in distance.
That's something the Prophet sallallahu sallam said 1400 years
ago, and I said it was a very incredible statement. There's
another narration there's a number of narrations that we have about
this from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Another one which
is related by Abi Shaybah Imam Ahmed Imam Hakim Imam. Hakim
considers it sahih as well, from Abu Salam Al Khalifa to the Allah
one was what allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that what
will be the situation when the fire will erupt from the amount of
rock which will illuminate the necks of the bacteria and camels
of Busara just like the light of day. That's how bright it will be.
That it will be like the brightness of the light of day and
that's how it will seem in Sham. taba Ronnie relates from ausimm
have no idea Al Ansari who says that once we asked the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just after he had first come to Madina,
Munawwara after the prophets, Allah Lauryssens migration from
Makkah to Madina, Munawwara they asked him that all the prophets
Allah some asked them rather, where is Hubzu sale or Hubzu sale?
Asking about a particular place. Now it was probably a very small
obscure village or something of that nature and they said we don't
know Jaros Well, Allah we don't know. Then he says that this
narrator says that after a while, meaning after maybe some days or
whatever, a person from the blue Salim tribe was passing by
I just asked him, Where are you from? He said, I'm from Hubzu
sale.
The same place that a Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had
just recently inquired about
so quickly, I called for my slippers, and I quickly rushed to
the Prophet sallallahu it was cinnamon said Yara swill Allah,
you are asking us about this herb sale. And we told you we don't
know anything about it, but just know a man has passed by. And I
asked him, and he reckons that he's from the people of that area.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam had that person called and
asked him, where's your family? He said at home. So say that's where
my family is. But I'm here. So he said quickly, take your family out
of that area, because soon a fire is to erupt there which will
illuminate the next of the cameras of Busara. There's going to be a
mighty fire. They're basically saying in that statement in
another one, which is even more graphic than that. abou yalla Imam
Muhammad and others relate from raffia Agnew Bishop a salami from
his father that and have a little Haytham he says that this chain is
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That soon a fire will erupt from Hubzu sale that will travel like
the speed of a slow camel and it will travel during the day and it
will stop during the night. In masa Dilfer dose another narration
from Armada the hola Juan that the Day of Judgment will not occur
until a valley from the valleys of Hijaz will overflow with fire. And
later on, when I do a bit of analysis, you will understand how
true this is. In fact, this is a very very intricate statement when
a valley from the valleys of Hijaz will overflow with fire, and that
the common statement there is that it will illuminate the necks of
the camels of Basra and you can look up Busaba is an area south of
Damascus spelled B O 's are a in English this way spell in Basra.
So now this is something that a Prophet sallallahu sallam said
during his lifetime, and 100 years past 200 300 400 500 And then in
654 Hijiri 654 EDRI 656 was when the final Ambassade ruler and
Masdar sim was killed, and that's when the Tatas destroyed by that
just after this two years before that ending, this fire had taken
place in Madina Munawwara 656. And if you want to put in more
perspective, that means 12 156 See 1256 So right now, in 2000, we're
talking about how many years ago, but 800 years, we're in
14 131 32 654, we're talking about, what 800 years ago, but 600
and some years after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Allah
has some who the who's a historian of the city of Madina, Munawwara
he's got a four volume book on the history and the virtues of Madina,
Munawwara he relates this in great detail as to exactly what happened
here. So that firstly, it was
at the ending of Joomla, adalah. Hera, beginning of actually
beginning of Joomla, the lockira ending of Joomla, the Lula, in 654
Hijiri.
And initially, the fire was very light. This was not really a fire,
what it really was, was a volcanic eruption. Flaming hot, because
when you look up Madina, Munawwara to the south, east, south and
south east, there's the horror. And then also to the north
northeast, is the horror, there's another horror, these are, this is
in that white kind of desert in the light desert, there is this
large expensive area which is filled with black bolts, old
rocks, and the whole land is dark. And for those who have traveled
between Madina, Munawwara, and Riyadh, which is further to the
east, in the center of the Arabian Peninsula. They have looked at
this large expanse of dark land rock, as they've passed, Biden
thought it to be quite amazing, but very few people actually
ventured beyond that to behind there, where there are a number of
craters. In fact, there are to the north there are two mountains
which are of white ash. So in the middle of all the darkness, there
actually is a white ash, mountains of white ash. And this craters,
there's a number of fissures in in the ground, meaning
cracks in the ground that you'd have to be very careful that
because if you fall in, you know where you would get to. And so
there are a number of these areas just around there, that whole area
is kind of on a fault line as such.
And there's there's a lot of geological, volcanic activity
there that they say that on average about every 340 or 50
years, there's a there's a volcano there, there's some movement down
there an earthquake. So that land is, is prone to that, as was seen
in this year 654, when the last major eruption took place. So this
was actually a volcano, which is which erupted. And this was from
these fishes, about six of six of these, six of these erupted at
once. And it was quite, quite amazing. But the miracle, as
you'll see is what we're also looking at here. So it says then
that on the Tuesday it became stronger, it became more severe.
And then it became so large and so mighty, that it had a visible
presence that people actually could begin to notice it when it
was Wednesday, which is about the third of the month or so or the
fourth of the month. Towards the ending of that day, the last third
of that day, a massive earthquake occurred from which many the huts
shook. I mean, it was quite a tormenting situation because they
weren't used to earthquakes. So when this earthquake took place,
people became extremely frightened. Now, the thing is that
this was just not a one off earthquake. The earthquakes
continue these tremors continued one after the other until they
remained until the night of Friday. So Thursday night Friday.
And it seemed that this were followed by these rolls of
thunder, it had a sound like the roar of thunder. And it almost
seem not. Because this was love bouncing jumping up and down. It
was just spewing, spewing forth. It. It was like the Earth was the
earth was shaking. And before before it actually erupted. We're
talking still about the earthquake, when all the tremors,
the walls were shaking, obviously. And they were about 18 tremors.
They were about 18 tremors just did a daytime. In one day, they
were 18. Tremors eventually come down in mid morning on Friday. And
when it was half daytime during July time, meaning when it was
midday, that's when that fire erupted. So it came it was it was
initially there were tremors and then the fire erupted.
Firstly, it's just a lot of smoke that build out from there. So much
so that the whole horizon was covered in black and you couldn't
see anything.
And then nighttime came.
So the night fell. And then you could see the flames shoot up. So
at night they had daytime it was smoke, and then the actual flames
came out.
First, it was on the one edge of the horror, the Harada is this is
this area of the dark rock and the dark, the darker Earth, which is
the one thing the South is harder to refer. And then there's some at
the top. And then there's that one that spreads all the way to Haber.
So initially, that's where it initially arose at the edge of
that. And it looked like when the way people described it was kind
of very interesting said that it looked like a whole city, a whole
massive town or a city in there because the flames and the lava
was so high and it was consuming everything in its presence. And
they described it like it had forts in their minarets in there.
And it was like it was surrounded by a wall like a city surrounded
by a wall. So this was some of the descriptions that people have
given of the might of this thing. I mean, some have described that
they could even see, I mean, again, this could be just some
people's imaginations because there are a number of
descriptions. One person it actually even says a relates that
it would consume all this it would melt literally melt all of the
stones that came in a twin just leave it in molten like molten
wax, but any wood that it would pass over like trees or something
you would not burn it at all. But that seems to be quite an extreme
exaggeration, because many of the other more stronger reports say
that not everything that was in its way it was just absolutely
just melting it and consuming it and nothing I mean, how could
anything remain in that kind of a outpour
so any small mountain or hill that he would pass by it would just
completely melt it down.
So initially, it was like a red
River, and sometimes bluish. So a bluish Red River. That's how they
describe it bluish Red River. I mean, this is the color when when
things burn at a very high intensity. And it had the sound
like roaring thunder as it was going through. It eventually
reached the place where it would the station of the array of the
Iraqi pilgrims. So when the pilgrims from Iraq used to come,
there was a particular station where they would all meet up. So
it reached that area, and so much debris would be left after it
passed by somewhere that it was like that debris would become like
a mountain said left mountains in his way and this is what volcanic
activity does it leave where there's larger amounts of lava, it
will leave like volcanic activities. And then this fire, it
stopped all the way very close to Medina Mona about a few kilometres
just outside Madina Munawwara Now despite all of this happening
outside Madina, Munawwara a few kilometers outside, in Madina
Munawwara itself, there was a very calm breeze
that was flowing. Some have described this entire movement,
like the boiling or the bubbling of a pot, and you know, so it
wasn't really it wasn't just a fire, it was actually love and
that's how they can describe it as something like that. Called the
Sinan was one of the judges of the time he relates that when this
fire had begun, I went to the Emir of Madina, Munawwara the governor
of Madina, Munawwara his name was Ed is the Dean when if, and I said
to him, that this other job has surrounded us. So we need to
resort to Allah subhana wa Tada we need to make dua to Allah subhanho
wa taala. So this king became extremely frightened as well,
because everybody could see it. Now. You could see from all of the
houses of Medina whenever you could just see it, that this was a
mighty fire. And the thing was that it was coming directly out
Madina Munawwara. So if it was consuming everything in its wake,
the entire Madina Munawwara would have been wiped out. So now the
king, he did a number of things. And I think this didn't happen all
at once. But I think as it became more intensified as it moved and
so on so forth. The king did a number of different things.
Firstly, he freed all of His slaves,
freed all of it because freeing a slave is extremely encouraged a
virtuous act in Islam. When you do that, it's really really a
virtuous thing and Allah subhanaw taala really loves it. So when you
fear that Allah subhanaw taala has anger is upon you, then you do
things that make Allah so that makes Allah subhanaw taala happy.
So number one freed all of the his slaves, returned to everybody,
whatever he had confiscated from them anything that was taken out
of oppression, in any oppressive measure, he returned all of those
things, whatever he could think of he had everything returned that
any of his ministers or anything had taken and any tax that he had
put on the people he even remove that he said okay, no tax from now
on. And then the Emir of Medina and these are all very significant
things because just remember this fire is raging. It's been going on
for days now and it is coming. It's slow. I said the prophets
Allah some had said it's going to go like the pace of a camel, but
it is coming towards Madina. Munawwara right, and nothing
you're not gonna sit, you're gonna save yourself from there. The Emir
of Madina Munawwara quickly went down to the masjid and he slept in
the masjid on that Saturday night. And along with him, the entire
population of Medina was present with him. So much so that even the
women and children rushed out of their houses, and they were
surrounding the masjid. And they were just into, around the Masjid.
So that Amin, all of his ministers, all of the men of of
Medina and the Emir is in the Hijra of the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam is by the role of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
Even the people who gone tend to the palm trees outside the city,
even they came, because there would be no palms left. Even they
came, so everybody was just like from the entire outskirts. They
all came to the masjid. They were there making dua to Allah subhana
wa Tada. Lots of crying, lots of crying. They they had their hats
off because this was an expression of humility. They had their hats
off just weeping in front of Allah subhana wa Tada. You know, in, in
hajj in in a haram, you take off your heads. So this is an
expression of humility, that they took off their hearts as well. And
they were all confessing to their sins and making Toba for all their
sins, and they were at the grave hoping for the bulk of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam there as well.
And ajeeb the most amazing thing was that this fire, despite coming
straight to Madina Munawwara at a short distance, before it suddenly
turned,
it miraculously turned
It just turned away, there was nothing that could have
diverted this, no strong wind, whatever, it was just a miraculous
turn. And geologists until today that have been studying this,
there's a Welsh geologist and there's others that have studied
it.
They just can't understand how, if a volcanic eruption of that nature
that is spreading in one direction can just suddenly take a turn as
though it's got a mind of its a premeditated mind that it can
direct itself wherever it goes. This can understand it. Allah
subhana wa Tada. Turned then that fire away from them as some hoody
relates to the left to the left. And then it went into the worthy
or Hey, Haley Ain. And the people of Medina could just see it with
the with their eyes. This then despite it remained for about
three months, meaning this eruption, and this flow continued
for about three months, but Madina Munawwara was saved. So there were
obviously two ends to this because it was going in to end so it
describes how one end was in the word your Chevette, and then there
was another one, but the one that was towards Madina Munawwara so it
did not continue that way and it extinguished in that area, and
then it turned the other way. Its width was about four miles long.
So I mean, you can imagine Medina wasn't a big at that time either.
Madina Munawwara wasn't that large either. But its width was about
four miles long. And it filled the valley that was four furlongs,
actually. So pictures of this, Saudi Aramco magazine had many
graphic pictures of this area. And there is one crater, which is over
a kilometer in length, where you know, that which was part of this
eruption, so that any stone that was in its path would be just
turned to wax. I mean, stones burn at a very high temperature. So you
can imagine the temperature of this, that any stone that came in
its way would just burn, it would just melt literally just melt. And
when it would melt, it would become dark, who would become
black. After after being red hot, it would actually turn turn black.
And that's where you got this large expense of blackness that
remains there now. And there are a number of places that were then
because it left a lot of debris in its wake. So many mountain passes
were were shut down, because they were completely blocked up by a
lot of the debris that he left, you know, because of its movement,
and because of what it what it was carrying, it just covered a lot of
not today, the aerial photographs of that area, show a dark layer.
And then it shows another layer, which shows the one that you're
that must have erupted before that one, but the Dark One is from 600.
From the six hundreds, number of the historians have actually
related this. So this is not just a one man narration Mr. DW
cathedra has related this as well. He says that call the southern
dental Hanafi related to me that his father says Sofia Dean, who
was a murderous, he was a teacher, in the mother of Busara. Now we're
going to Missouri, right, which is about 600 kilometers away. He says
My father was a Sufi Dean was a teacher at the mothers of Busara.
And he told him, that he informed him that a number of the desert
Arabs that were there in that Busara area tending to their
camels, they saw clearly the next of their camels in the light of
that fire, which the prophets and a lot of them have spoken about.
So it's not related from just one man that he said he saw something
but all or many of the shepherds of that area that the camel men,
they all related number of them related that they could see they
could see it was just very bright. Now the thing is that if you
remember in the Hadith he talks about Hubzu sale Mardini block a
theory relates that this fire, it came in the direction it came from
the direction of the east of Madina Munawwara towards the way
of Swati Thea. So Aditya and that is where Hubzu sale is. It's
between the horror of Banu Salim and Swati Tia. So that's where
erupted from every detail that arose Allah ism is giving. It's
almost as if he knows the geological aspects of the area and
the movements of things and he's prophesizing this. Now the thing
is that after this fire, which Alhamdulillah was turned away
miraculously by the doors, and the Toba and the repentance of the
people on Madina, Munawwara strangest thing is that after
people felt safety from that, and hamdulillah Madina Munawwara was
saved the masjid burned down for other reasons later that year.
And that is the first of the burnings of the Prophet
sallallahu. Some have spoken about where the masjid will burned out
the first of the burnings that he spoke about
But
the other thing is that digelar, the Euphrates and the Tigris
River, this is the Tigris that digitalize the Tigris River in the
Iraqi overflowed.
And because of that much of Baghdad, came under water. And in
fact, so much so that even the house of the Wazir of Baghdad that
was destroyed in that that was a major assign for them, because if
you remember we talked about how the Abbasids had also become
lovers of opulence and how they eat possessions at least twice led
to the delay of the Eid Salah prayer until close to midnight.
And the other one just after sunset, heed prayer they're
supposed to be performed in the morning was performed at night,
not sure what happened to other solids. Maybe they were performed,
I don't know.
But this was a warning for them, Dutch law overflowing and so on.
And then in the year after that, so we were talking about 654. In
655. The
the major incident took place, the major crisis and onslaught which
was the onset of the Tatas where they came and killed.
But nearly over half of that three quarters of the population of of
Baghdad, and they killed the last of the Khalifa of the Abbas at
Empire Moscow sim. And this lasted for about 30 Something days this
killing I mean to kill over a million people, how long is it
going to take? This is not something new and think about but
it was over 30 days. What they did was they also took all the books
out of the libraries. And they would throw them on the ground and
have the horses run over them
and trample over them. The Great Mother Son Islamia, which was one
of the major colleges there that demand was it used to teach at
that was seen to become the in it. They made stables grazing areas
for their animals with books, they would make them where they would
line that they would literally construct the walls out of the
books, one on top of the other. And then they would protect the
animals inside to make cubicles for them to graze and then a fire.
Also, there was a fire in Baghdad because the plasticization just
ruined everything. There was a fire in Baghdad as well. And
even some of the major palaces there were also burned down, not
just their palaces were burned down, but to Roberto rusafa to
Roberto rusafa. And unfortunate I've never been to Baghdad at some
were always have liked to have gone to see much of this history
because there's just so much history. And unfortunately, it
seems like many things have been destroyed, which is really sad
because Iraq has is the cradle of civilization. That's where much of
the world civilization may have started from as such. And there's
a lot of history there. That is, you know, Islamic and pre Islamic.
There's a lot of Islamic history there as well, because that is a
an Islamic city. It's a new city, there was no such thing as
Baghdad. During the time the prophets of Allah Islam is
established later on. Likewise, Kufa and Basra these were later
cities that were established by the sahaba. So there's a there's a
lot there. But anyway, even
the store battle rusafa, which was the famous graveyard, the Royal
graveyard, of all of the buses, they'd been burying their dead in
there for years, you know, throughout their career, caliphate
period, even that was burned down. So there was a
poem that was seen on the walls, which said, that this is the man
who Abbas the tests of the time, have overcome them and have run
over them. So much so that nothing has been left, that not only their
living have been killed, but even their dead have been burned. And
that's the severe punishment from Allah subhanaw taala, that your
graveyards also being attacked, and so much death occurred in
Baghdad. And that was also the ending of the Abbas empire. But
for Allah subhanaw taala is all praise in the beginning. And at
the end, because he raises who he wishes, and honors who he wishes
and degrades and humiliates who he wishes. This is obviously not the
fire that will come. This was not the fire that is still to come at
the end of time. There are a number of Hadith which speak about
a fire that will erupt, that will drive people to their place of
gathering. Because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
in a number of Hadith that a fire will erupt, which will drive the
people to their place of gathering. So you know what, what
we're supposed to happen is that after everybody has died, and the
trumpet has been blown
The horn will be blown again and then people will come out of their
graves and will be given the new life. Now the reckoning is
supposed to begin the hisab is supposed to start. So from
wherever people are around the world after the world has after
the land or the land in the world has become all flat, and all the
mountains have been leveled, a fire will erupt, that will drive
the people in the direction of the mashup of the gathering place. And
according to most scholars, that could be the maidin of our
efforts. Some say it's in Sham Allah knows best. But it's not
that fire we're speaking about this fire was clearly one that was
spoken about by the promise of load is seldom to have occurred
earlier on, which which occurred. That's why one of the orientalist
he talks about this, you know, again, he said it this fire burst
out in the direction of hijas. It resembled a vast city with a
turreted and battlement fought, in which men appeared drawing the
flames about as it were wide it sought burned and melted like a
sea everything that came in its way, present near Red and bluish
stream bursting from it ran close to El Medina, and at the same
time, the city was found by a cooling wind from the same
direction. The eruption lasted about 52 days at its fiery Zenith.
Those further afield also witnessed strange sights with
reboot reports of the light of the eruption visible in Makkah and
tamer six days journey from Medina. Historians relayed that
the depth of the lava flow was a long Spears length around three
meters high, and that it flowed like a red blue boiling river
carrying in his way gravel stones and trees with thundering noises
of cluster learning asserts that the fire now Castellani never saw
this, because he was in Makkah Makara, Rama, but he relates to
incidents about this, that a fire was so fierce that no one could
approach it within two aero flights. I mean, if it was so
bright, that he could illuminate something 600 Plus kilometres
away, then you can imagine how can you get even close to it. So he's
saying that it was so much that you couldn't approach it to arrow
flights. Aero flight means as far as an arrow is fired through the
air, so you've got two of those distances, you couldn't get closer
to that because it was just too hot.
I mean, if it was an intensity that could melt rocks, and you can
imagine how, how strong and intense that must have been. The
brilliant light
of the volcano made the face of the country as bright as day.
And the interior of the Haram area was as if the the sun shone upon
it. The governance citizens prayed for the safety of the city. And as
the lover approached, many, including the women children wept
and prayed around the Prophet Salah Lauryssens tomb. Then the
lover current suddenly turned north, and the city was spared.
And that's the miracle are these earthquakes that took place
earlier on if we look at it from a geological point of view, the
earthquake was caused by Paul Xotic magma welling up through the
cracks in the 40 kilometers thick crust of the Arabian Peninsula.
Right so it is a thick crust. It was quickly followed by fiery
volcanic eruptions that lasted nearly two months, and then
spooled lava and ash from a massive fissure south east of
Medina, throwing up six cones of cinders
the love of fluid for 23 kilometers which is 15 miles,
threatening to inundate Medina, the city itself Arabia's largest
love of fuel, which is about 20,000 square kilometer
kilometers, which is called Hera Raha, extends for 300 kilometres
south of the holy city of Madina Munawwara
for coalescing, lava fields erupted from offset north
northwest trending vent system comprising heritor Raha the lava
flow extends about 100 kilometres west of the axis of that field. So
it will I mean, when you're talking about 100 kilometres of
flow at the time, and it was very, very high. You can imagine how
that must have been 6.5 cubic kilometer of lava flow erupted
from a six aligned scoria cones and travelled 23 kilometers to
within four kilometers on Madina Munawwara now, there's a Welsh
geologist, who is been studying this for all of his life,
basically, and he's trying to figure out how this thing suddenly
turned just outside Madina Munawwara how it suddenly turned.
And he says that the only explanation that he can come with
is that this had to be something of a miracle. You can't explain it
geologically. So you can't explain it from in any other way. That it
has to be something of a greater power that change these things.
And, I mean, all we can say is that this must have been the way
of the way that people are Medina acted where they relented, where
they repented from their sins. And I think this obviously teaches us
a major lesson. Because the way we see it today is that we've got
many things that
We fear. But the thing is that whatever we fear, I don't think
any of that is the severe in terms of what they were fear or what
they were seeing at that time. Because this was literally
something that could be seen, though it was a few miles away.
But it was coming in this direction. And the fear was the
fear was absolutely imminent. You know, it's like, it's there, it's
going to take you up straight away, and nothing is going to be
saved. The fears that we have, I don't personally, I don't think
that as serious as this, because the fears that we have are rather
vague. Sometimes they are, you know, some border on conspiracy
theories, some border on, you know, things that happened in
other areas, and so on, so forth. I mean, what I'm trying to say is
that if they could make dua, and an imminent fear and threat could
be diverted miraculously, then what is it, that the fears that we
have today cannot be diverted from us? And how we cannot be, we
cannot feel safe.
I mean, you can never feel safe in this world, but at least you could
feel some sense of confidence, is it because our doors are not at
that level yet. I mean, this required that
this, this required every wrong thing that the king of the ruler
had done, to give that back to seek forgiveness for that, number
two, to free all of His slaves. Number three, to just repent,
bring the whole city it can't happen with one man, it happens
when everybody gets together. That's what that's what the issue
is. What we have is we have some people who may be connected to
Allah subhanaw taala, who are concerned who are making dua for
our brothers in Palestine and Iraq and other and of honey, Stan, and
in other places. And then we've got many others who don't care,
because it's not happening to them. I mean, what did they do
here, they didn't put up stones in his path because no stone would
work. They didn't put up you know, then gone, bring and, you know,
dig trenches or anything like that what they did, they literally they
rushed to the masjid and they prayed.
They did all spiritual things. We're not saying don't do a
physical things, but they noticed and this one, there's nothing you
can do this fires to mighty,
you know, this is going to take everything in its way. So what
they did was, they did the only thing that they could do, but they
did it well. So anything that prevents us from being accepted,
which is one of the main things that prevents us from being
accepted, is oppression on somebody else, oppressing somebody
taking somebody's rights. And when you get rid of that you're clean.
You're connected to Allah subhanaw taala. Now you're no longer a
violin. More likely, you're a mudroom, you're an oppressed
person, because you feel that there's didn't danger that's
imminent. And Allah subhanaw taala will listen to your prayer. So if
none Muslim geologists can today just look at that in amazement,
and think how can that happen? And geologically is unexplainable.
And the only thing that they could probably conclude is that this
seems to be you know, this is a virtuous city. It's the Haram,
it's the place of the, you know, one of the centers of the place of
the Muslims, it's where their prophet Marsala ism is buried, or
you can come to that conclusion, then
I think it's an eye opener for us. And these incidents are not spoken
about and told about for nothing. There's a reason why these things
happen. And the reason why these things, so basically, I would
probably say, This is what the history historians have said that,
although this was a major catastrophe, and probably much of
that land was probably uninhabited. So know how many
maybe small villages there like the few small villages that
promises or some spoke about, maybe they were destroyed in that,
but the people of Medina for them, although it seemed like a major
punishment, but it was actually a mercy in this case. Because what
did that do? What do you think this did for the people of Madina?
Munawwara
it created a situation for them, in which they became purified of
their sins. I mean, can you imagine if you were there, that
every single man, woman and child on there, what do you think
they're going to be praying about? Do you think there's going to be
any uncensored was there? I mean, they were going to be praying and
crying their hearts out. So you can imagine that that's where it
requires, that this is somewhere where we can get an idea from that
what is required to cry your heart out to repent, in all seriousness,
and in all earnestness, realizing that this fear is going to be upon
us.
I mean, just put yourself in Medina, Miranda, what would you
do?
You could run away but your entire, you know, whoever's left
there, your positions, everything would be gone. So the thing you do
is the trust in Allah subhanaw taala. I mean, the people of
Pompeii didn't do that. When Mount Vesuvius arose. I mean, that was
something else because Allah knows best what was happening there. But
this is a this is an example where a massive mirror
takes place. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us to April, May Allah
subhanho wa Taala give us the ability to learn from these things
for it to be a sign because seriously, I see a major sign in
this that we all need to make dua together for these things and
collectively become better people. May Allah subhanaw taala give us
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