Ali Albarghouthi – When Will Allah Punish The Oppressors

We extend their time so that they would

compile sin upon sin, that they will earn

more sins.

The greatest

punishment is for you to be punished while

not knowing that you're being punished.

And every punish every sin

has its own punishment, and one of the

punishment of sin is for person to continue

to commit that sin.

It's natural

for us when we witness

days upon days of injustice

For us or for some of us to

start asking the question,

when will Allah

punish the oppressors?

When will the aggressors

meet

the consequence of what they're doing?

Because we know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

is just and he does not love injustice.

He had forbidden it,

and that the outcome of its justice is

darkness

in the dunya and in the akhira.

But the question is when will that

happen.

And that reminds me of

an incident that was reported

from one of the scholars of Benu Israel,

an Israelite scholar

who once asked

he said, You Allah,

how often do I sin

but You do not punish me.

So Allah revealed

to him

He says, oh my servant how often do

I punish you but you do not feel

it?

Did

I not deprive you of the sweetness

of talking to me?

That is in that tradition

Allah

is telling this person

who had thought that he had somehow

escaped the punishment of Allah Azza wa Jal

that no you are being punished. Have you

not noticed that

there's a sweetness

in conversing with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in

dua, in reading his book, and being close

to him. Iman has its own sweetness.

Iman is the reward of Iman.

So did you not feel

that I took that away from you when

you started to sin?

The greatest

punishment is for you to be punished while

not knowing that you're being punished.

If you notice Allah's punishment

it will restrain you, it will wake you

up, you'll understand

that he subhanahu wa ta'ala is unhappy with

you and that is a great gift because

then you can change.

When you have failed to notice Allah's punishment,

then you will continue

in your on your way to disobey him,

subhanahu wa ta'ala,

unrestrained,

unafraid

and ultimately

that leads to that person's destruction.

And that is not only significant when it

comes to nations but even individuals as well.

So even though we're talking about something that

is collective today, I don't want us to

miss the point that this is true for

us individually.

That if you have noticed

that Allah

had taken from you the sweetness of reading

the Quran, the sweetness of dua, the sweetness

of salah,

you have to come back and ask

by what did I do? What did I

do for that to be taken away from

me?

So Abu Nujazir Rahimahullah he said that the

punishment of Allah

is not only in the akhir but is

in the dunya as well.

And every punish, every sin

has its own punishment and one of the

punishment of sin is for person to continue

to commit that sin

and to commit greater sins. So if you

see it, an aggressor, an oppressor

killing people

and they are emboldened by the support of

countries and the world around them and they

continue to do more and more of that,

you must witness that this is an punishment

from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for them.

The ability to kill more people and to

continue to kill in it self is a

punishment from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

because the more that this piles up, the

more that a person hastens

his own destruction

and his own undoing.

Allah

says,

Let that let not the disbelievers

think that we extend their time on earth

because we intend good for them.

We extend their time so that they would

compile sin upon sin, that they will earn

more sins.

Allah says, and they will have a humiliating

punishment.