Yasir Qadhi – The Quranic Perspective on Earthquakes

			Alhamdulillah all praises due to Allah the Lord the ROB he does as he pleases for our to Lima, you
read, he sends the rain down to the earth and he brings forth the plant from the seed. None can
challenge what to decrease his will and power shall always succeed. He says going to matter and it
becomes and the hearts of the Creation continues to praise him as do the tongues. So we submit our
will to that of an ally him and Allah Hakeem and we beg him that our souls he redeems us towards
Allah follows the know that Allah Subhana Allah to Allah has reminded us to be conscious of him.
When he says in the Quran, you hola Dena Maruta Allah Allah to hottie while temotu Illa one to
		

			Muslim Moon dear Muslims, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala reminds us to sort of Bukhara verse 214 I'm Hasebe
tomb until the whole Jana, did you think you will enter Jana, without any tests and trials? Did you
think Jana was free for the taking? And Allah subhana wa Tada says, and you have not been tested
like those before you must set homegirl Betsa will Barack was Zulu Zulu had your color Rasulullah
Dena Ahmed Omar, Huma Turnus Rolla, the people before you were tested so much with afflictions with
adversities, they were so violently shaken was zero, that even the prophets and the closest people
that believed in them, they cried out, where is the help of Allah? Where shall the help of Allah
		

			when shall the help of Allah come? And Allah responds, in the nostril Allah He budeme Verily, Allah
has Nasir Allah's help is always close. The Arabic word for Sheikh Zulu is the same word that means
earthquake Zina. And there is hardly any calamity that shakes people's faith, and that destroys
entire civilizations like that of Xizang of earthquakes. In fact, the Quran teaches us that at
times, at times, Allah subhanho wa Taala uses Israel's uses earthquakes to destroy entire
civilizations that people have shy we are told in the Quran Hodel Mala Lydian Acuff Roman call me
him, the chieftains of the people of sure if they said Let any Tabata I'm sure Ivan in either la hos
		

			Iran, if you follow sure i All of you are losers. Allah azza wa jal says that Homer Raji for the
earthquake came and destroyed them for us by houfy. Daddy him Jessie mean, and they fell lifeless in
the very houses that they built, the very houses that they thought would protect them, those houses
collapsed on them, and they all died in that punishment that Allah sent to the people of Shanghai.
The same goes for the people of Hood. Allah subhana wa Tada mentions they too, were destroyed by a
trembling of the earth. Allah azza wa jal tells us very clearly in the Quran and Sunnah tell Anka
boots. Allah azza wa jal says that for cooler and a husband, Airbnb, each one of these previous
		

			civilizations we call to account for their sins, some of them are selling either him however, we
sent storms upon them of of stones, others we sent a mighty blast, yet others we cause the earth to
swallow them in earthquakes, and yet others We drowned them. And Allah azza wa jal did not wrong
them but they wronged themselves. And we learn as well in the story of Kowloon, the wealthiest and
the mightiest person in the Quran. That person whom ALLAH blessed with more wealth than anybody in
human history. That person who said Allah didn't make me wealthy, I made myself wealthy. I managed
to earn this money from my intelligence. I know how to earn money. And he would boastfully walk on
		

			this earth, and Allah subhana wa Taala mentions his whole story and sort of costs us and then Allah
says for Seffner B Hill out, we cause the earth to rupture, and he falls into it an earthquake
happened right where he was walking. And in a hadith in Sahih Behati. Our Prophet system also
mentioned a similar story, somebody else the Prophet SAW, Selim said, that there was a man in a
generation before you walking with pride on Earth, boasting of his clothes and wealth, puffed up
with conceit, full pride, walking in a very arrogant manner. And because of this, Allah subhanho wa
Taala caused the earth to open up and swallowed him and he is continuing to go falling and falling
		

			until he will go into the depths of jahannam. So the concept of Zela being a punishment
		

			It is something that the Quran mentions is indeed true for some peoples. In fact, Allah subhanho wa
Taala mentions very clearly in the Quran that if he wanted to, he could send such a punishment on
anybody if he so desires. The Quran reminds us especially the Quran and those who rejected the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam have the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala and that ALLAH SubhanA
wa Taala can at any moment cause an earthquake to come right where they are in Nisha Nassif behind
will Earth if we want we can cause the very earth that they walk on to break up and open underneath
them. Allah subhana wa Tada challenges the mighty challenges the arrogant challenges those that are
		

			causing facade and bloodshed on this earth. Amin and levena Macaluso yards, do those that are doing
evil deeds. Do those who not devise evil plots? Do they feel safe against Allah subhana wa to either
causing the earth to open up and swallow them? Are they that confident they can guarantee that no
earthquake will come under their very feet? very explicitly. Allah says Who gave you this contract
who gave you the sense of security in Surah Al molk. We recite all the time, every single Juma every
few weeks we recite every one of us should recite Surah Mulk as often as possible. Amin to Memphis
sama II and yes, if I become ill out of the fire either here 10 More Do you feel secure and safe
		

			against the one who is in the heavens? That he shall not cause the earth to swallow you up as it is
shaking violently wafer either here toward toward here means it to shaking violently. Are you that
confident that at any time no earthquake will come to you? And that is why our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam will seek refuge in Allah from such a calamity. Allah says in the Quran, called who
will call you Allah and yerba Alikum Ida Berman and Phil click on Allah is qualified and capable.
Allah is fully capable of sending upon you a punishment from above you are prophets and recited this
verse. He said, I seek Allah's refuge from any punishment, a type of rain that comes through a type
		

			of stoning from the heavens, I seek Allah's refuge. Then the Quran goes on, I will mentality or
Julie calm, or from the very place that you're walking on underneath a poverty and others say
meaning via an earthquake, and the process and recited this verse, and he says, I seek refuge in
You, oh Allah from this ever happening. I seek refuge in You from this ever happening. So the Quran
is very clear that Allah is all powerful, and Allah azza wa jal can at any time send this upon
anybody whom He wills, and there is no denying that upon some civilizations in the past, it was used
as a mechanism of punishment. However, however, we need to be very, very clear here, that not every
		

			single time Zelda happens, it is because of a punishment. Not every single time that it happens, we
must automatically blame the very people iStockphoto Allah, that's not the case at all. In fact, the
Quran tells us of another case of an earthquake that was not sent down as a punishment, but was sent
down as an Ebro as a means of reflecting as a means of repentance as a means of coming close to
Allah subhanho wa Taala and this isn't suitable out of ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala mentions walked out on
Musa coma who serene Orajel LME cartina, Musa chose 70 People from his from amongst his nation to
meet the special appointment that he would go up to to resign. Now he chose 70 people that would
		

			wait for him at the bottom of booty Cena. Then what happened? farlam ohada tumor Roger Ver to the
earthquake overtook them. And Musa called out, Yara be Oh my Lord, if you willed you could have
destroyed us a long time ago and me as well. Are you going to destroy us because of the sins of a
few people? Rather, this is a test from you in here Illa fitna Touka some people will be misguided
and led astray because of this test, and others will be guided because of it. Until Willie Yuna and
Timo Lana, You are our Protector, you are our guardian for him, nah, fulfill Anna, forgive us have
mercy on us will antihero raw, humane and you are the Most Merciful of all who have mercy.
		

			On earthquake overtook the best human being alive at the time, that is Musa alayhis salam, he felt
the earth shake under him. He felt the earth shake under him. And he turned to Allah subhanho wa
Taala and he said, Oh Allah, if you wanted to, we will be destroyed by a million reasons. And
because of this, some people will
		

			go astray and others, they shall be guided others, they shall recollect their thoughts, they shall
come back to the right path. So I am asking you, oh Allah that you guide us, I'm asking you that you
forgive us. I'm asking you that you have mercy on us. Here, we have an explicit example of an
earthquake that was not sent as a punishment, Musa was not being punished for something, but rather,
as overall a means that a lesson and a sign. So we have to be careful. Unfortunately, some people
who don't understand they make these overarching statements that every type of zeltser every
earthquake, it is a punishment upon the very people it is coming upon. And this is not the attitude
		

			of the believer, true sometimes in some civilizations that were used, but not all the time. And we
need to be very clear that when something like this happens, we go to the individual level, we don't
speak at the macro level. And we say for every single righteous person who has been afflicted in sha
Allah Who to Allah, it is a means of raising that person's ranks. It is a means of forgiveness. It
is a means of Kfar up and exploitation. And those who are not afflicted directly and even those that
are they should take from this Ebro a lesson they should take from this that which they used to take
for granted the stability of the earth. For example, we take this completely for granted, but only
		

			Allah azza wa jal knows if and when some type of calamity like this were to ever happen. I was in
those very cities of Halsey on top and chandelier or for a year and a half ago, I was there for four
days, I went there to help refugees that were coming over from Syria. It is a different side of
Turkey, beautiful land, historic land, an entire civilization city like ours. No one could ever have
predicted no one could have thought that that very city would now be in shambles. No one can predict
this. It is all Allah's Kadar and despite all of our technology, despite all that we have come to,
we still have no idea when and where the next earthquake will happen. So let nobody feel safe. Alpha
		

			amino macara ALLAH, do you feel safe against Allah azza wa jal let nobody have that sense of
arrogance. All of us should have a sense of humility when we see these tragedies, and our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam predicted that of the signs of the Day of Judgment is Katara to xylazine
is that earthquakes are going to increase and we see this by Allah. We see this every few days,
weeks, every few years, a massive earthquake happens, which is a typical barely 10 years ago in some
of our homelands, Pakistan, one of the most devastating earthquakes took place recently as well.
Another one took for every few years, some massive earthquake takes place. 20 years ago, it was in
		

			the island of Haiti, all of these earthquakes, our profit system or predictive Sahiba hottie Hadith,
that of the signs of the Day of Judgment is that earthquakes are going to become frequent and more
cutthroat xylazine. And the Quran reminds us the Quran reminds us that when we see these
earthquakes, we should not only think of the impending closeness of the Day of Judgment, but also of
the actualities of the Day of Judgment. And that is because one of the signs one of the one of the
characteristics of the actual day of judgment is that the entire Earth is going to be engulfed in an
earthquake, not one city, not one area, not one country, the entire globe is going to be shaking, no
		

			place will be safe from that earthquake. Allah subhanho wa Taala says, you harness it to Cora back
home in zealot, Assa T che you are now vim all mankind, the conscious and mindful of Allah subhanho
wa Taala and know that the violent earthquake of the Day of Judgment is a very dreadful thing in
Zambia to Sir, you think these earthquakes are bad. A time will come when we will all be
experiencing the earthquake of the Day of Judgment. On that day. Allah will protect some people and
Allah will grant them peace may Allah make us amongst them, and those that don't have that comfort
and peace. They will be facing an earthquake the likes of which no human has ever seen in zealot
		

			Assa T che on Alvim In fact, we have an entire sutra called the Sutra of earthquakes we've all
memorized it as a child either Zillertal out of those Xyla surah. ZIL Salat means the sort of
earthquakes either Zillertal or will do ZIL Salah ha. When the earth is going to have an earthquake,
the real earthquake Zulueta Zala ha the one earthquake that she'll engulf the entire world. Never
has the world had an earthquake yes lands have them. Cities have them regions have them
		

			There shall only be one earthquake that shall engulf the entire world, either. Zillertal outdo zils
Allah oneself Zela one earthquake that shall be greater than all of the earthquakes combined, that
shall happen on the very day of judgment. So of the wisdoms of seeing an earthquake now seeing the
panic and chaos, seeing that reality of the wisdoms, we prepare for that earthquake, we prepare for
the protection of the last day on that day. It's not going to be our physical houses that will
protect us, it will be our houses of iman. We cannot fortify our cover from that earthquake with a
cement No, we can fortify our cover with our good deeds with our Salah with our luck, we can fortify
		

			the cover with how we lived our lives so that when that earthquake happens, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
says, The believers will HomeAdvisor and Yo Ma even Amin on the believers, they will not be worried
when everybody else will be worried Allah will give them a man Allah will protect them, when
everybody else will be terrified, they are going to be protected. So of the wisdoms of seeing these
types of calamities is that we are more cognizant and conscious of the ultimate earthquake, which is
the earthquake of the Day of Judgment, and we prepare for that, brothers and sisters. From all of
this we learn that it is a mistake to generalize and say that such such natural disasters are only
		

			because of the people there and they might have done something wrong. No, there are multiple reasons
for just such disasters. And there are multiple lessons and wisdoms and for those who are afflicted,
the only thing we can say to them is that they must turn to Allah subhana wa Tada for patience. They
must expect Allah to reward them for all that they have lost and they must never ever lose hope of
the help of Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah in Nasir Allah He called him in surah Allah He uploaded in
masala Hikari May Allah Subhana Allah Allah bless me and you within through the Quran and may make
us of those who is vs. They understand and applies halal and haram throughout our lifespan. As
		

			scholars forgiveness, yours will ask him for his the love for and the Rockman.
		

			hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah the one and the unique. He it is when we worship, and it is
his aid that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed and He hears the prayer of the week as to what
follows. Know that there was no Zeller earthquake during the lifetime of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam in Medina, there is a weak narration which is very weak that there was some
earthquake, but this is not true. There was no earthquake during the time of the Sierra. But there
was a spectacular solar eclipse. And back then, right now we can predict an eclipse down to the
millisecond. And because we can predict it, we have lost the the all that people in the past had of
		

			it. But we haven't lost all of earthquakes. You cannot predict earthquakes. Despite all of our
science, we cannot predict earthquakes. The people back then could neither predict earthquakes, nor
could they predict solar eclipses. And so both of them gave a sense of all trepidation, genuine
sense of fear of what is happening. So during the life of the prophet Sallallahu either he was
seldom there was what they would consider a natural disaster a very rare occurrence. A full on solar
eclipse, of course, they did not understand the physics. Sadly, just because we understand the
physics we have lost the oil and we forget that Allah azza wa jal is the one who put the sun and the
		

			Moon to the Earth in this dimension. Allah is the one who controls even if we know the mechanism, it
should not remove from our hearts the sense of all of the realities of how this is happening. So in
the time of the process of there was this solar eclipse, and it coincided with a tragedy. It
coincided with the personal loss of the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that child
who he named after his ancestor Ibrahim, Ibrahim passed away and a few hours later, the sun
eclipsed, the people began linking something on Earth with something up there. And they said, this
is because of the death of Ibrahim. And our Prophet system taught us basic al Qaeda and theology. He
		

			taught us basic realities that we still use to this day. Verily, the sun and the moon are two of the
signs and miracles of Allah. And they do not Eclipse because of the life and the death of somebody
on Earth. The sun and the moon are natural creations of Allah. They are miracles, they are signs
they're magnificent. They are not linked to the birth and the death of people.
		

			On this earth, similarly, natural causes like earthquakes and other things, we should not
immediately link them to what is happening on Earth. Sometimes Allah azza wa jal used it for
punishment, and other times it is just a natural phenomenon as is this what the process man is
telling us, the sun and the moon are two of the phenomenons of Allah they don't Eclipse because of
what is happening here on Earth. Rather the process of them said, Allah azza wa jal uses them. In
order that you draw lessons you how we will be here Ibadah who he wants this evolved, he wants the
servants to draw closer to Allah to increase in their trepidation, their Eman, their Taqwa. So when
		

			you see this, I will preface this and I'm said, Rush immediately to do the vicar of Allah and
increase your Diaz and increase her aesthetic far and Hadith. When you see one of these amazing
phenomenon, when you see these natural signs of Allah subhana wa taala. Don't let these natural
signs fall on deaf ears. Don't let them fall on stale and old hearts know, let your heart be alive
and young with the vicar of Allah. Let your hearts be soft at the realities of what is going on. And
how will you do this? Take an Uber like the process that I've said, these are signs that Allah is
using so that His servants draw closer to Him, so that his servants marveled at his power,
		

			appreciate the other of Allah subhanho wa Taala turn back to Allah increase their DUA and is still
far and thicker, literally from the Hadith when the sun eclipsed. So how much more so when we see
this type of Zela ALLAH SubhanA wa Allah says in the Quran, woman luda, Sybil Yachty in touch with.
We only send these types of signs and miracles so that our servants turned back to me and they
increase in their taqwa and the hope and the hardship of me when I noticed suitable Yachty in touch
with Qatada commented on this verse and he said, Allah subhanho wa Taala uses all of these types of
signs, so that perchance may be some of his servants will reflect some of his servants will
		

			remember, some of his servants will turn back to Allah subhanho wa taala. And once an earthquake did
happen, not in the lifetime of the process, but in the lifetime of some of the Sahaba in Kufa, the
earth shook in Kufa and there was a minor trembling an earthquake, and even Massoud came out even
muster with the senior companion and the greatest scholar and Sahaba that lived in Kufa, a minister
who came out to the masjid he gathered all the people in the masjid while the earth is Zella is
giving its earthquakes and Ibn Masaru it gave them a powerful hutzpah. And of that he said, we have
recorded in our books of history, he said, Yeah, Yohannes oh people or mankind, your Lord has given
		

			you a chance to return back to him. So take this opportunity and turn back to him. Your Lord has
given you a chance by showing you this and you're still here. Allah didn't take you away. You're
still here. Your Lord has given you a chance that you turn back to him. So therefore seize the
opportunity and turn back to him. This is the spirit of our faith. We accept Allah other we don't
have to be happy. We accept that Allah has the right to do as he pleases. We understand there's a
wisdom we might not know the wisdom. We ourselves might not appreciate the wisdom but there must be
wisdoms, beyond our human understandings. We trust Allah subhana wa Taala he is our Mola he is our
		

			protector, we turn to Him, those that are actually suffering the calamity we can only make dua for
them and help them in other ways. And but we remind them to turn to Allah for sub for throw up to
expect that what Allah has taken away, he will give even more back in this world before the next and
we remind these brothers and sisters of ours, we remind them that Allah azza wa jal has chosen them
to raise their ranks as our Prophet sallallahu sallam said, when Allah loves somebody, he tests them
and the more he loves them, the more he tests them, and especially the people of that region, they
have already been tested by civil war have already been tested by an evil tyrant destroying their
		

			own country. I mean, here what is happening below the sham they've been tested in so many ways to
panela. Now on top of this, this is being tested, but the people of Sham are beloved to Allah azza
wa jal, the people of Sham have been praised in the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam so we make dua for them, we pray for them brothers and sisters, we give them what we can we
will give insha Allah to Allah charity, it's fortify on all of us, we raise funds for them, we make
dua for them and of the things of the Sunnah of the Prophet system that we will revive today. We
will make a special to offer them to our quote in our Salah in our tour because we're going to pray
		

			Our Prophet system whenever there was a calamity whenever there was a disaster, he would actually
make a special dua within the Salah and this is a well known tradition all over the Medina who
understand and agree to this every time there's a Nazia a disaster then
		

			The Muslim Ummah collectively should make dua in the third Salah watch. And so today insha Allah
Allah insalata Juma and the second Raka. After we come up from the ROCOR, we're going to make a
short and brief to our special dua to revive the Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
and again, a reminder to all of your brothers and sisters do what you can. First and foremost Your
heart should be attached more than anything, there must be a genuine sense of attachment of Rama
which means number two, you follow the news you see what's happening. Number three, you make dua for
them DA is free to add takes nothing raise your hands and make dua for them. And number four,
		

			whoever can should give whatever they can give whatever amount you can for this disaster and tragedy
so that Allah subhanho wa Taala accepts whatever meager efforts we can and the final point use this
as an Abler for us to better our own lives. And we ask Allah is refuge we seek Allah's refuge that
no such calamity ever comes unto us. Allahumma in Edina aminu Allahu Allah Tada via the AMI ism but
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