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Allah azza wa jal sends us reminders.

And through those, those reminders, Allah subhanho wa Taala wants us to respond and to wake up.

So an earthquake here and a flood there and a killing here, and a misfortune there and all of these things happen

with a decree and command of him Subhana who were to Allah because there is we know wisdom behind them,

there is benefit,

there is a message

and there should be a reaction.

And people are split when they hear and receive these messages.

There are people who will simply look at the material causes and consequences

and they do not see that there is a divine force that made all of this happen

and wants something from it.

So they look at Allah he will hire the dunya these are the scientific causes and scientific or physical reasons and the physical responses and they stop. And these people have missed entirely what Allah wanted them to see.

And there are those who are heatless

who do not react at all.

And Allah azza wa jal says fanola If Joe homebirths sunnah Tada Oh ALLAH Kim CAcert Hulu boom

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says when our punishment came upon them, why did they not plead

with Allah azza wa jal?

Why did this not move him?

But he answers it.

But their hearts were stiff,

hard.

And the shaytaan beautified to them what they were doing.

Meaning that when the punishment of Allah or his message, or he calamity comes to us, and we are not moved in, there is something wrong with our hearts that they are so stiff, that they're like stone.

And we seek Allah's refuge from having such hearts that even when they see the greatest of reminders, they are now moved.

And that these hearts, listen to the shaytaan that whatever you're doing is fine.

You're not bent by this, this is not a punishment, this is not a reminder, your lifestyle is fine.

So that is another category of people. And you have a third category of people that whenever this happens, they start to question him SubhanaHu wa Tada. Why did he allow this to happen? Why is so much suffering, and again, they failed to see the wisdom and mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala and the benefits that lie in such calamities.

And the final category of those who see the messages of ALLAH SubhanA who were to Allah

and among these messages.

First

is to realize and rediscover Allah's might and power and this in significance of humanity.

So Allah azza wa jal has all the power but we forget because we think we have power. We progress we accumulate, we plan.

We succeed in some of our endeavors. And then we think we have control over this life and over our own lives. And then Allah azza wa jal comes all of a sudden and disrupts all of that just to show you

How much power he has and how much power we don't.

Allah azza wa jal says mean to Memphis summer a UFC Furby como la orotava either here to move

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this is do you feel secure with the one who is above

that he will not cause the earth to crack beneath you

and shake violently?

And previous to that I Allah was saying that he had made this earth so easy for you to walk on. But then he says, Do you feel secure with him that he's not going to make this more secure? Or things crack and crumble and shake beneath you?

Or do you feel secure with the one who is above that he will not send upon you punishment from the sky?

Then you will know how severe my warning is Allah says, then you will understand that what I'm saying

is serious when you see that punishment. So do you feel secure?

And if the prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam rasool Allah He did not feel secure. How could we?

Because this answers the question of a person thinking that he is so righteous that this could never happen.

I showed her the Allahu anha that cannot rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I either or al Haman to the urologist who

she said that when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he would do and he was see clouds with rain carrying rain in them but had not rained yet. His face would change and he would become restless, goes inside the house outside the house sits stands up breathless.

When it rains,

then he would experience relief. And that repeats so she asked him all the Allahu Anhu Why does this happen? Oh prophet of Allah. Why does this happen? Why do you react this way? Karla wanna you amino Nia and he Hakuna coma Kalu Fela Mara who are either Mustafa or deity him? It says how do I feel secure that this could be like those in the Quran? Who said that when they saw these clouds coming? They said yes, this is just simply rain.

That Allah says what but who am is dodging to be here he Humvee or other Brunelli? No, this is a wind that is bringing great punishment.

So if Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi wasallam while he was alive next to the Companions, who are the best of Muslims, when he sees something that could be

a punishment from Allah azza wa jal, he will be so afraid that maybe because of our sins, we are about to be punished. He is that sensitive, he is that fearful?

Why would we not react in the same way?

So he understood, and he his Salatu was Salam, Allah's might, and Allah has power,

and our fallibility our mistakes,

and also understand our weakness. And the impermanence of this life. That's another lesson.

That is few again to learn.

Learn the impermanence of this life

that we collect, and we gather, and we think that we're going to live and we think that our life is going to be very long.

And you plan ahead for five and 10, and 20, and 50 years ahead.

And again, because of all the power you have you feeling that you have established yourself on this earth, and when an earthquake comes, or a flood, or what have you, in in a sudden, in a minute, you lose all of it.

You lose everything that you've ever collected, you lose all the dreams that you've ever had, you may lose all the loved ones that you have in a minute you lose all of it.

And what is that telling you about the dunya and your connection to it if you could lose all of it in a minute?

Should you believe that you are permanent in it?

Or should you reexamine all of your connections on Earth? In terms of how pleasing and displeasing they are to Allah azza wa jal and how attached you are to them. Is this your car? And is this your house? And are these your clothes and Is this your shop and Is this your food?

Or is it that in a minute or an hour from now they could belong to your heirs and you have none of that? Imagine someone who in an earthquake he because you had to flee his house.

He could grab only one thing and one thing only, and run out and everything else is lost, then you realize that what you have what you value of this life is not valuable, because it doesn't stay. And the only thing that is valuable is the thing that stays with you. And the only thing that stays with you is the aroma of Allah Zoda

and your iman and your good deeds. So if you attach yourself to the dunya you're attaching itself yourself to something that will betray you and leave you. If you attach yourself to Allah azza wa jal, then Allah is always in all places in all times with you subhanho wa taala, you could never lose him.

If you deposit money for the earth era in terms of sadaqa

and Zika, you will never lose it. If you save up this money in the dunya and hoard it,

then you are going to lose it.

So these events should again re educate us so that we understand that nothing stays except Allah azza wa jal and what is for his for his sake. So hold on to what matters.

And seek Allah's refuge and compensation for everything else.

Of the lessons also that we learn

is that these are all warnings from him. Subhanahu wa taala.

Allah says, Woman or Sue will tilde to whoever he says we see we send these signs as a warning.

And he said Alayhi Salatu was Salam. He said that these signs

do not happen to signal the death or the life of a person. But Allah you have we will be here we have a brother who Allah is warning his creation with these signs

for either or a to her 500 in a victory. What do you what Toba? He says when you see these signs from Allah subhanho wa Taala How should you react you rush to thicker and DUA and repentance.

When you see a big calamity like this and you are going to see if Allah extends your life, more and more of them, as you come close to the Day of Judgment because that is also another reminder.

An earthquake that you see or a flood that you see is only going to accelerate in intensity. As you approach the Day of Judgment, that is one of its signs.

And his mom reminds you of the great calamity or the great earthquake of the Day of Judgment in his Exhibit. Assa T show you on Alene the earthquake on the Day of Judgment is something mighty.

beyond anything that we have seen, we could experience see, you see it and you understand something like that is coming in the dunya and something like that is coming in the earth era. So it transports you to a time where you are seeking Allah's protection from a greater calamity.

But going back to what we've experienced, why do we rush to thicker and do

until about when these things happen?

Because they happen because of us.

They're happening because Allah is warning us

at one time

an earthquake happened in Medina and Omar Radi Allahu Anhu he says, if you guys do not change or if you guys do not come back to Allah Azza wa Jalla will not continue to live among you.

And it's something like that happened in El Kufa with Abdullah hypnosis owed was living there, Radi Allahu Anhu

and he said in Naropa, Camilla Stateville comfortable.

He says your Rob is asking you to repent so repent meaning when the earth shakes underneath you.

When something as big as that happens, and you see the signs of volatility, unpredictability, anger, the foreshadowing of punishment. He's saying your Rob is asking you to repent

because that shaking is not coincidental. It's happening for a reason.

When masa Kumi musi but Infibeam kisser but ad Komaba for Anca Thea he said subhanho wa Taala whatever calamity comes your way is because of what you have earned and Allah forgives Allah

Subhana Allah He forgives a lot.

But if it happens, you need to re examine

We need to re examine ourselves and say, if Allah said this is happening because of us,

then why are we like this?

And why are we not changing and why are we not learning from it?

How much punishment should we receive and how much reminders should we receive before we change? What are we waiting for?

So, yes, it is coming to us, and we contribute to it collectively globally in the way that we live. Allah azza wa jal is telling us individually and collectively, your lifestyle is not good enough. Your Eman is not good enough. We are committing too many sins. We're drowning in the love of this life and forgetting about Allah azza wa jal, we don't rush to what pleases Him, but to what displeases Him, look at us globally, or pick a spot on this earth. Are we living the way that Allah azza wa jal wants us to live? Are we not deserving on more and more of these reminders so that we would wake up? Why don't we wake up? Why are we reading the Quran and waking up? Why aren't we

reading the Sunnah and we can afford when we are observing the world around us and thinking, it's about time that you will change. Because if I do not listen to this message right now, and it's happening so many 1000s of kilometers away from me, it's going to come closer and closer and closer to me, a will touch you. And if not you, then your children, it will touch you. Because the reminder only is going to intensify, the more depth we are.

So if it's happening because of us, we have the key to change this reality.

It just depends on who has the living heart to absorb this message. And who is really fearful of Allah subhanahu wa to Allah who really does not feel secure of his punishment. And who truly believes that no one had guaranteed that he is going to live an hour from now. So if you repent now you have one, if you delay your repentance, you do not know we'll be able to catch it later and bring it to your heart or not.

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we also witnessing these reminders, the ram of Allah subhanho wa taala.

And indeed we say and we stress again the Rama of Allah subhanahu wa taala

because the events

that end someone's life

or take their property from them or not always

a sign of anger

Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

either or as Allah who will be at the higher on the agenda the whole dunya

were either or they'll be Abdi he shall run EM Sir Ken Hu b then b He had you were fear b He yo multi Yama. He said la Salatu was Salam that if Allah Who wants the best for a human being,

he will hasten his punishment in the dunya.

And if he wants the worst for a human being, he withholds punishment for his sins until he will arrive on the day of judgments with his sins in full.

So understand here because that hadith answers your question, when something bad happens to you personally, or something happens to Muslims and you say how come Muslims but non Muslims are Muslims here but not Muslims there?

Or why me but not somebody else?

Am I so displeasing to Allah azza wa jal that I'm being punished but so and so as being blessed. And you are simply looking at favours of the dunya or calamities of the dunya and these things don't matter much the eyes of Allah zodion Allah could give you money or take it away from you. It's not a sign that you're favored.

But in that hadith, it tells you something important,

that if Allah azza wa jal wants the best for you and no one should ever ask for punishment. But if Allah Who wants the best for you and you have

sins, and you are ya and you and I have failed to repent and ask for forgiveness. So you're carrying this toxic load with you, then what is going to happen with it? If Allah were to give you the option, I'll punish you for it on the day of judgment or take your punishment here.

And punishment on the Day of Judgment is much, much severe,

intolerable, which would you choose?

So Allah if he wants the best for you, the punishment will be here.

And you will arrive with Allah azza wa jal sinless, or a lot of that toxicity removed a lot of sins removed. But if Allah azza wa jal does not want the best for someone, he doesn't punish them for they have sins. They have a lot of them, but you don't see them being punished or tested.

They have and they have even more

and you can't compute that in your head. But if you know the sooner you understand that that's not a favor of Allah azza wa jal. So when they arrive on the Day of Judgment, they are has so many sins that they would wish that they were punished in the dunya.

And another Hadith the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam said in Amati Hadi who Mattoon mer Houma lays Allah Azza Boonville here are others who have dunya Alphington who will cut Lu was the dazzle

it says this ummah of mind is an ummah that has received at the mercy of Allah azza wa jal, it will not be punished in the hereafter. Its punishment is in the dunya earthquakes and killings and Phaeton.

So if you see the Ummah, Muhammad Ali is Salatu was Salam tested in particular.

And we should do whatever we can to stop such calamities, if that is within our means. But if you're seeing the amount of Muhammad Ali is salatu, was salam tested in particular, remember that hadith, that this is not always a sign of anger? Yes, the sins have called this into being.

But it's not that Allah azza wa jal

is so angry that he wants to obliterate everybody.

Know, Allah azza wa jal will send that punishment.

And for some people, it will be a punishment because of their sins. And for some people, it will be martyrdom, shahada,

and for some people, it will be expiation and forgiveness of their sins, one household next to the other, one person next to their their neighbor next to the other, and their outcome and their fate is different, based on their intention and based on their life.

So yes, when it descends,

the punishment descends collectively, and it kills a lot of people. But people are resurrected according to their intentions, you Bethel Nasser Alinea to him. That's what the Prophet alayhi salatu salam said, they're different.

So it's not because it happened in one spot that that spot is more sinful than the other spot. Allah azza wa jal chose, and he has extreme wisdom, full wisdom and his choice. But maybe you want Allah who wanted to select from among those who have died shahada martyrs, and to forgive others and to remind others, but the question is, for everybody else who was spared and who's watching and you have the luxury to watch from a distance and hasn't really affected you.

Will you say when you meet Allah azza wa jal? Yeah Allah you didn't send me a reminder and I did not know

and nothing moved me nothing educated me.

How would you react to this and among the things that we also should include among the lessons

is your assistance

is your DUA is your sadaqa is how you move how you react,

that you feel their pain and you want to do something for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ala a levy alleviate somebody's hardship so that Allah would alleviate yours can contribute $1 or a 10 or 100, or even more so that this would stay with you. Perhaps because of it Allah azza wa jal will push away a harm that is heading your way. Maybe because of it Allah azza wa jal will give you power over his sin, or will help you with your children or with your spouse or will help you on the Day of Judgment but Allah also wants to see, will you be a person of mercy and Rama? Will you have a man so that the pain of a part of the body will elicit reaction from the rest of the body or is again the

heart so stiff and hard that nothing moves it? And if the heart is that dead,

then what is it waiting for?

already except the physical death of the body before it's completely dead. Then you meet Allah azza wa jal. And Allah will tell you, none of my reminders worked with you. Because he did not want to be reminded. You were thinking about what I was going to earn next day and what can I eat after this and what I will do in the next week, you were only living for the dunya. And you only work for the dunya and you only gave for the dunya and the dunya is gone. And you have nothing now with me, nothing.

I showed you people who had lost their family members, husbands and wives and children and it did not move you I showed you people who had lost their homes and it did not move you I showed you people who are crying and did not move you. What else could I send you so are you to wake up?

So when will we wake up?

So as Allah azza wa jal, first and foremost for a living heart, because if we don't have this, these reminders, not going to be effective. We're going to hear them and we're going to forget them. So ask Allah azza wa jal, Formosa, Allah give us a living heart so that we understand your lessons and reminders so that we are afraid of you so we never feel secure when it comes to your punishment. So that when we look ourselves at ourselves, we see our deficiency and we stand in humility before you beseeching you pleading with you, Ya Allah, we know that every and each one of us deserves such punishment, because we know what we have done.

We know how neglectful we are, but we understand that you've covered us with Your mercy and concealed our sins. So as you can see us in the dunya and protect us and have mercy with us in the dunya do so in the earth era. So stand whom will humble before him subhanho wa Taala and move say to yourself, let me change a little bit. Let me make dua for them. Let me give sadaqa for them, let me see it any other way I can help.

And one of the best ways is for you as an individual to change and to change your kids and to change your spouse may Allah azza wa jal or hamara hai mean, make us a whole those who hear the best of reminders and follow them make us era Bill al Amin of those who adhere to your book and to your son of the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam teachers uribl al Amin, the wisdom we find in the Quran and the Sunnah and Allah was to follow it Dr. hamre I mean, make us era but Al Amin of those who understand the lessons that we've talked about today and heed them and follow them and allow us to change internally and externally. Yeah Allah we asked you for living hearts, You Allah Who asked you

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