The law of destruction: punishment of nations

In his series "Al Fawzu Al Moubeen", Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy takes up God's punishment of nations that rebelled against His way, naming wind, the shout, earthquakes and volcanoes among the means. ¹ He sets out a scientific explanation of earthquakes and then objects that the believer sees in them a divine reminder. ² He answers a question about a hadith linking abandoning jihad to afflictions, holding that the outcome is tied to sins, and then analyses Umar's stance on the shaking of the earth. ^{3 4}

The Sheikh mentions nations that God punished with wind, the shout, earthquakes and volcanoes. ¹ He states that Iceland has thirty-six volcanic craters (needs_source: volcano-count). ¹

The Sheikh presents the scientific explanation of an earthquake as the movement of the earth's layers, and then objects that the believer sees in it a reminder from God. ² This view is recorded here as the speaker's own; the museum does not weigh it against the scientific explanation.

A listener asks about a hadith which says that abandoning jihad brings afflictions, sinking into the earth and transformation. The Sheikh answers that the outcome is tied to sins (needs_source: hadith-unnamed). ³

The Sheikh analyses the stance of Umar ibn al-Khattab, that the earth shakes because of the deeds of those who forgot God. He lists examples of individual sins that he regards as a departure from the path. ⁴