RELATION BETWEEN THE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS,
AND
MORAN DEGRADATION
LO! ALLAH WRONGS NOT EVEN BY THE
WEIGHT OF AN ATOM
AND IF THERE IS A GOOD DEED,
HE WILL DOUBLE IT,
AND WILL GIVE (THE DOER) FROM
HIS PRESENCE AN IMMENSE REWARD"
WHY ARE THERE SUFFERINGS? WHO DO CATASTROPHIES HAPPEN WHICH KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN NO TIME? WHAT IS THAT GOD, WHO PUNISHES HIS OWN CREATIONS? THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT STRANGE. MANY PUT THEM BOLDLY, AND MANY WISPER THEM IN THEIR HEARTS. HOLY QURAN TELLS THAT, IT IS NOT ALLAH, BUT THE MAN HIMSELF WHO IS ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS MISFORTUNES. ALLAH WRONGS NOT EVEN BY THE W R EIGHT OF AN ATOM.IF IT IS SO THEN, HOW IS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS MISFORTUNES? PARTICULARLY, WHEN HE IS ALWAYS GREEDY FOR HIS BENEFITS, WHY SHOULD HE WORK FOR HIS OWN MISFORTUNES?
IN ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS, THE QURAN TELLS THAT MANKIND REALLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR THEM AND WHAT IS BAD. THE MAN FOLLOWS HIS AMBITIONS BLINDLY AND OFTEN HAS PIT FALLS. MANY A TIMES HE SHUNS FROM A THING WHICH IS REALLY GOOD FOR HIS OWN FUTURE. IN THIS RESPECT HE LIKE A CHILD. FOR EXAMPLE THOUGH EDUCATION IS GOOD FOR HIM, BUT IF THE CHILD HAS A CHOICE, HE, WILL GO FOR PLAYTHINGS. BUT HIS PARENTS, KNOWING THE WORTH OF EDUCATION, EVEN FORCE HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL AND WORK HARD ON BOOKS. SIMILAR IS THE CASE OF THE MANKIND. THEIR CREATOR KNOWS WHAT HE HAS BEEN SENDING HIS PROPHETS AND MESSENGERS IN ALL AGES TO HELP THEM TO CLEARLY SEE THE RIGHT PATH. THE LAST OF THIS LONG SERIES HAS BEEN MUHAMMED, MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM, AND THE HOLY QURAN IS THE LAST AND THE LATEST EDITION OF THE DIVINE GUIDANCE. IF MANKIND FOLLOW ITS TEACHIGS THEY WILL ALWAYS REMAIN ON SAFER SIDE.
TO INVITE OUR ATTENTION TO THE REAL CAUSES OF TEH CATASROPHIES THE HOLY QURAN ILLUSTRATES A FEW TYPES OF PUNISHMENTS WHICH HAVE BEFALLEN ON WICKED PEOPLE IN THE PAST, BECAUSE OF THEIR CONTINUOUS BREAKING OF THE DIVINE LAWS.
AND WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE, AND
HE LIVED WITH THEM,
A THOUSAND YEARS MINUS FIFTY,
THEN THEY WERE CAUGHT BY THE DELUGE,
FOR THEY WERE EVIL.
THIS WAS THE CAUSE OF AN IMMORAL NATION DESTROYED BY A LARGE SCALE FLOOD. IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE IS GIVEN THE PLIGHT OF THE SINNERS WHO WERE DEVASTED BY EARTHQUAKE:
TO MIDIAN WE SENT THEIR BROTHER SHU'EYB
HE SAID, O, PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD,
AND BE READY FOR THE DAY OF RESURRECTION,
DO NOT DO EVIL AND
CREATE NOT MISCHIEF IN THE LAND,
BUT THEY DENIED HIM AND (ULTIMATELY)
WERE SEIZED BY AN EARTHQUAKE,
AND LAY OVERTURNED IN THEIR HOMES'
IN THE MORNING
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE PUNISHMENT IS NARRATED IN THE VERSE 29 (38). IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF AAD AND THAMUD, WHO WERE POWERFUL NATIONS OF THEIR TIMES, BUT IN THE END, WERE ALSO DESTROYED BY NATURAL CATASTROPHIES DUE TO THEIR MISDEEDS.
AND AAD AND THAMUD, (THEIR FATEA)
WILL BE CLEAR TO YOU FROM THEIR HABITATION,
(HOW THEY WERE DESTROYED)
FOR SATAN HAD MADE THEIR DEEDS LOOK
ATTRACTIVE TO THEM,
AND TURNED THEM AWAY FROM THE PATH OF (ALLAH)
AND YET THEY WERE A PEOPLE WITH ACUMEN".
