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Advice of ʿUmar Bin ʿAbd Al-ʿAzīz on the Occurrence of Earthquakes

Posted by Abu Iyaad
Thursday, Feb 09 2023
Filed under Tazkiyah & Tarbiyah



ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (رحمه الله) wrote to various provinces:[1]

To proceed, this earthquake is something by which Allāh (عز وجل) reprimands the servants, and I have written to all the provinces that [the people] should come out on that day and anyone who has something should give charity with it, for Allāh (عز وجل) said:

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ تَزَكَّى وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى

He succeeds who purifies [his soul] and remembers [only] the name of his Lord and then prays.[2]

And say as Ādam said:

قَالا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنْفُسَنَا وَإِنْ لَمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ

They both said: O our Lord, we have wronged ourselves and if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers. [3]

And say as Nūḥ said:

وَإِلَّا تَغْفِرْ لِى وَتَرْحَمْنِىٓ أَكُن مِّنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

And unless you forgive me and have mercy upon me, I will be among the losers.[4]

And say as Yūnus said:

لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

There is none worthy of worship but you, indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.[5]

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Footnotes
1. Al-Jawāb al-Kāfī (Dār ʿĀlam al-Fawāʾid: pp. 112-113)
2. Sūrah al-Aʿlā (87:14-15)
3. Sūrah al-Aʿrāf (7:23)
4. Sūrah Hūd (11:47)
5. Sūrah al-Anbiyāʾ (21:87)

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