Athaab Of Allah Ta’ala Overtakes A Community, Then Duas And Thikr, Whilst Drowning Will Not Avail

If the current  spiral of  fitan (plural of  Fitnah – mischief, evil, anarchy) engulfing the nations of the world in general, and the Ummah in particular,  cannot  arouse Muslims from their villainous slumber and jolt them out  of their indulgence in immorality and transgression, no amount of dreams of the Buzrugs will avail. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) warning the Ummah, said that when Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahyi Anil Munkar (Commanding virtue and prohibiting vice) is abandoned, then Allah Ta’ala will appoint over us such  brutal tyrants who will show no mercy to our little ones and no respect to our elders. The brutality and humiliation  – the direct consequences of our misdeeds and rebellion – will hem in, disfigure and mutilate all members of the Ummah, be they infants, children, adults, men, women, the pious and the impious. No one will be spared when the Divine Axe falls on the Ummah. In this regard, the Qur’aan Majeed states:  “Beware of such a Fitnah (Divine Punishment) which will not only overtake the transgressors among you.”  At such a time of universal Athaab, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that your Buzrugs will supplicate (make Dua), but their Duas will go unheeded.

It should be well understood that when the Athaab of Allah Ta’ala overtakes a community, then Duas and Thikr, whilst drowning will not avail. Duas at that time will not avert the Athaab. The Divine Chastisement will run its ordained course. Even the pious Buzrugs and the Ulama will be overtaken by the disastrous punishment of Allah Ta’ala, which assumes a variety of forms such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes,  fire,  pestilence, volcano eruptions, drought, famine, internecine warefare (Muslims killing Muslims), and the imposition of kuffaar to  unleash brutality and genocide. All of these effects are being observed  daily in our times. But no one heeds these palpable  Signs of Qiyaamah and their immediate consequences which are being enacted  in real life and which we observe and experience  whilst we are fully awake. The Buzrugs are silent on  the issues  of the state of awakefulness.

The horrendous atrocities in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Palestine, Kashmir, and elsewhere,  the earthquakes and floods occurring with increasing frequency, the collapse of buildings killing hundreds, and other disasters have not succeeded in opening the eyes of this Ummah. What hope is there for dreams to achieve the objective which the numerous other disasters fail to achieve? The Muslim Ummah is not suffering merely from spiritual lethargy. On the contrary, Muslims are spiritually dead and morally rotten to the core. These are the issues which the Buzrugs are supposed to tackle. These are the issues to emphasize, not the dreams. If  the dreams  are true, the Buzrugs who are disseminating it should wake up and execute the Command of Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahyi Anil Munkar.  Minus this vital requisite, it is meaningless to  advise people to recite litanies of athkaar and dua, etc. The Ummah is rotten. It stinks of  sin and immorality. The application of perfume to a filthy stinking body is ignorance. The body should first be thoroughly washed and purified. Thereafter will follow new garments and perfume.

If the Buzrugs  and Ulama are genuine in their concern for the safety of the Ummah and for Allah’s Athaab to be diverted,  they should highlight to their respective communities the fisq, fujoor, bid’ah and shirk in which  Muslims are wallowing.  Reciting duas without  attending to the disease of flagrant  transgression against Allah Ta’ala, will serve no benefit. Casting a veil of silence over the  flagrant  haraam perpetrations  of the Ummah and advising Muslims to make dua, is ludicrous and ineffective. Muslims should be educated and informed of their wrongs and sins. Many Muslims indulge in  sin  because  of the misguidance of the Ulama-e-Soo’. The Buzrugs and Ulama are more concerned with their little entrenched  empires – their superficial ‘khaanqas’ and their  madaaris which have become moral and spiritual skeletons. The satanic diplomacy of silence of the Buzrugs and Ulama in the face of flagrant fisq and fujoor  of not only the lay people, but of the Ulama  and Buzrugs as well, has ruined the Ummah.  Dreams will not extricate the Ummah from the morally  rotten and degenerate abyss in which the Ummah is sliding.

Warnings are heeded by only those who are genuinely pious.  They are not in need of dreams to jolt them, for they are always  awake and alert.  They are always in the state of Inaabat ilal laah. They turn to Allah Ta’ala with repentance, greater reformation of the nafs and A’maal-e-Saalihah. Of what benefit  are duas for  people who refuse to abandon their evil televisions, evil  computer and cell phone pornography? Such people  have no idea of the meaning of Taubah and Istighfaar. Reciting  some Istighfaar formulae whilst continuing  the indulgence in fisq and fujoor, television and cell phone, carrion and riba, zina and gambling, bid’ah and kufr, etc.,  will not avail. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) himself has informed us that the Dua of  even the Buzrugs will not be heeded by Allah Ta’ala when the ultimate decree of  Allah’s Athaab arrives. The Qur’aan Majeed says:

    “For every Ummah there is a term (an appointed time). When their appointed time arrives, it will not be not be  advanced  nor delayed by a moment.”

This  absolutely rebellious and treacherous Ummah of today comes  within the scope of the Qur’aanic aayat:

   “When We (i.e. Allah Ta’ala) intend to destroy (the people) of a city, We command its affluent ones (i.e. they are given respite and free run). Then they perpetrate their fisq (flagrant acts of immorality) in the city. Then the  Decree (of Punishment) becomes confirmed for  (the people) of the city.  Then We utterly destroy and deracinate it.” (i.e.  the entire community is utterly uprooted and destroyed).

Among the Signs of the Approaching Hour which will be the prelude to the appearance if Dajjaal, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that:

• Amaanat (trust) in all fields will be abused and misappropriated
• The husband will obey his wife (in fulfilling all her haraam desires)
• Knowledge of the Deen will be pursued  for worldly objectives
• Children will be insolently disobedient to their mother
• A man will draw his friend close to himself and distance himself from his father
• Voices will become loud in the Musaajid
• The Musaajid will be beautifully adorned structures, but devoid of Deeni guidance
• Nothing will remain of the Qur’aan, but its written text
• A nation will appoint as its leader the one who is most corrupt
• Bid’ah will be regarded to be Sunnah
• Music will be  excessively prevalent (Today we hear music even in the Musjid when  cell phones ring)
• The genuine  people of piety will disappear and only  ‘rubbish’ will remain
• The worst of the people will be their Ulama
• Knowledge of the Deen will disappear and jahl (ignorance) will take its place. Juhala will seek ‘fatwas’ from Juhala (Morons).  They will be astray and lead others astray.
• Paying Zakaat will seem like paying a fine.

 When these vices transpire, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “Then be prepared for red winds (this could mean hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, etc.),