God's Ways(Laws) With Previous Nations

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most merciful

All praises are for Allah the First (nothing is before Him) and the Last

.  All blessing of Allah and peace be upon him and upon his family the Good and purified ones and upon his noble and blessed companions.

As to what preceded: I would like to start by advising you O!People as well as  myself to fear God(Allah) the Most Glorified ,this is His recommendation to the first and the last of mankind As Allah The Most High says:(وَللّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَلَقَدْ وَصَّيْنَا الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ أَنِ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَإِن تَكْفُرُواْ فَإِنَّ لِلّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَكَانَ اللّهُ غَنِيّاً حَمِيداً) (النساء : 131 )

(And verily , we have recommended to the people of the scripture before you and to you(Muslims) to fear Allah and keep your duty to Him)                 .

O Muslims verily God  (Allah) the creator guided us in his Holy book (Quraan) that His Ways will never replace or change and God's Laws    come upon the societies in accordance with what He measured And that the nations and societies didn't decline from their highness of glory and  didn't perish after dominating and their traces weren't eradicated from their high and lofty place only until after they abandoned those practices  and their farness from the causes of honor and power which Allah legislated upon the foundation of His perfect wisdom              ..

(ذَلِكَ أَن لَّمْ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ الْقُرَى بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا غَافِلُونَ . وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِّمَّا عَمِلُواْ وَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ) (الأنعام : ١٣١ - ١٣٢

( This is to because your Lord would not destroy the population of towns for their wrong-doing while their people were unaware of God orders. For all there will be degrees according to what they did. And your Lord is not unaware of what they do).

Allah (God) will not change what is with a nation of honor, victory , authority, prosperous living, safety and comfort only until that nation

Changes what is within themselves with sincere mind, the correct conveyance of the religion , unbiased thinking, clear sightedness, strength in defending and exhorting with the truth by learning lessons from what happened to the previous nations in the past days and pondering of the states of those who were destroyed (the ones who deviated from Allah's path.  Roaming in every valley(everywhere) because of their abandonment of Allah's Laws, Commandments, and Supreme Justice and taking the right way in their ideology and honesty in their speaking and the strength in belonging to their religion and honesty in fulfilling desires and showing no enthusiasm concerning issues of  belief and because of preferring living for falsehood  than dieing for the truth.  So God punished them because of their sins and there was no protector for them.

.                                         (وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا فَتِلْكَ مَسَاكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَن مِّن بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلاً وَكُنَّا نَحْنُ الْوَارِثِينَ) (القصص : 58 )

(And a town for its means of livelihood(disobeying      Allah and his messengers by doing evil              (population) have We destroyed ,which was thankless deeds and crimes) And those are their dwellings, which have not been inhabited after them except little. And verily! We have been the inheritors.) al-Qasas 58

O Glorified God! what a similarity is between tonight and the last night and today from yesterday and this is history repeating itself. while the Muslims were one nation from the east to the west of earth until this nation failed and disputed in the religion, the people disobeyed their creator after He gave them what they loved and they were arrogant with their huge population which made them proud but this did not benefit them any. So God changed their high life into low one and their prestige into humiliation and their prosperity into poverty  and their strength into weakness

(أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ . وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَاذِبِينَ) العنكبوت: ٢ - ٣

(Do people think that they will be left alone because they say " we believe" and they will not be tested and we indeed tested those who were before them and Allah will certainly make truth of those who are true known and he also will make the truth of those who are liars).Al-Ankabut2-3

So any society is deceived by its false pretensions and lost in its darkness of false impressions, will never attain true faith. Bearing hardships for the sake of )Faith) is a test and true faith can not be attained by detaching oneself completely from the desires of hearts, because verily true faith overcomes every desire and defeats every complicated thing and drives the believer to seek God's pleasure without any driver, except Allah, as Allah says:

(لاَ يَسْتَأْذِنُكَ الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ أَن يُجَاهِدُواْ بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَنفُسِهِمْ وَاللّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالْمُتَّقِينَ) (التوبة : 44 )

So O God's worshippers can in this state for any Muslim society taste the flavor of the eternal happiness and the never-ending prosperity and it built its belief upon a fantasy that has no source and an illusion that will soon disappear or build its belonging to its religion and practicing it on a brink of an undermined precipice ready to crumble down or holdjng a weak string of a rope which is in fact weaker than the spider string .No because the solid belief For the strong firm belief signs appear on intentions and actions and has an effect on the thoughts and intentions So the belief is in this way in all its affairs and branches has its own features which never separate and characters that do not separate from it by these was the first Muslim society distinguished and this distinction and glorious placement which was recognized by those who denied and rival their belief and that because of the Muslim's patience on obeying God and seriousness on following the religion and biting firmly onto it by their front teeth and standing facing the troubles and problems depending on their strong firm belief that can not be moved by a volcano or shaken by winds they knew that every danger is a destruction must be avoided they are sure that the destruction has a safety after it and every pain they suffer because of holding onto the religion is a hope and every difficulty they have in fulfilling justice and truth is a comfort and prosperity and fear accompany defending their territory is safety they feel all those because they have life beyond this life and enjoyment beyond its enjoyments different from the enjoyment that Satan enhances. This is the state of those whose

heart was touched by faith even he didn't reach the state of  complete faith  Contrary to that .withdrawing oneself back and escaping from facing God's test of faith and following the religion is considered a source of  disgrace and destruction so there is no happiness without a religion and without preservation of the religion all wishes fly away because for faith and defending it there are great expenses and hard obligations hard to bear and carry out except for those who God has already tested their hearts for dutiful where the first thing faith required from a Muslim person that is to have the strong intention to live not for himself but because of himself and change from caring of faith to caring for it so God and his messenger are the most loveable to him than himself ,his children and all people.

Indeed  ,God will not accept any excuse or apology in protecting faith and defending the religion bounds and accomplish God's constitution and his laws on his earth as long as the heart ( or mind) can understand and the  feet can walk and the hands can work and the eyes can see and the ears can hear God says(وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيراً مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالإِنسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لاَّ يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لاَّ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لاَّ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا أُوْلَـئِكَ كَالأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ) (الأعراف : 179 ) ٠

(.And surely We have created many of the jinn

and humankind for Hell They have hearts wherewith they do not understand and they have eyes wherewith they can't see and they have ears wherewith they can't hear (the truth) they are like cattle they even more astray; those ! they are heedless ones.)Al-A'raf 179

So God's worshippers fear God and know that the mighty Muslim nations of the past weren't founded and then destroyed  and that there was no glorious country that turned upside down, only because of their abandoning of the religion or their neglecting it Then because of discord and dispute with each other and trusting those trustless Insisting on one's idea and avoiding consulting and avoiding the Islamic group and negligence in preparing power and giving responsibility to those who are not qualified and putting things in other than rightful places .All these were no doubt the cause in implementing tyranny between them and disorder in their systems. The deviation from God's laws are the reasons for His anger with them so He will replaces them with other people who will not be like them and He is the most perfect ruler.

Friday 29-4-1427 Speech By Dr. Saud Al-Sheraim  .

-Translated By Abdullah M.Zamzami.  Edited By Farooq Abu-Abdulrahman