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By Allison Khan | March 22, 2011
As the death toll hits an estimated 15,000 and the homeless are numbered 350.000 in densely populated Japan, it is impossible to avoid the question: why would such a disaster of this magnitude strike?
In addition to being homeless, the victims of 9.0 tsunami are trying to survive snowy weather and cold temperatures. As if that isn't enough, there is a growing fear that the food and water is contaminated with radiation.
The geological explanation is that two tectonic plates collided six miles underwater, which then generated the 33 foot tsunami waves that washed away the people, the houses and everything else in its path, but this "explanation" is cold and unsatisfactory. The magnitude of this disaster is earth shaking news here in America.
We can't help asking "Why?"
Caliphatul Masih the fifth, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, worldwide leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, tackled this question in his Friday sermon, which can be viewed at: alislam.org.
"The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) has indeed connected his advent with earthquakes and other natural disasters."
Having being informed by God, he foretold that natural disaster would take place as a sign for him.
He wrote: ‘Addressing me God Almighty said: ‘You are a warner on my behalf. I have sent you so that the guilty ones be separated from the righteous, ‘and He said, ‘A warner came unto the world but the world accepted him not, yet God will accept him and demonstrate his truthfulness with mighty onslaughts.’
And, ‘I shall bless thee, so much so that kings shall seek blessings from thy garments.’
Furthermore, he warned that no one should feel safe. We should fear God.
The Holy Qur’an states: ‘Verily, those who, out of fear of their Lord, always stand guard against sins. And those who believe in the Signs of their Lord,’ (23:58 – 59).
In addition, the caliph said "The Surah goes on to state that these people do not ascribe partners to God and are not those who only remember God in difficult, turbulent times and forget Him in peaceful times....They turn to God with greater intensity in times when they face difficulties or observe climatic changes.
Of course, the next question is: "Why should we fear God?"
The Shinto religion is the "indigenous religion of Japan." It is "polytheistic in character, incorporating the worship of a number of ethinic divinities from the chief of which the emporer is believed to be descended."
How is the Shinto religion practised?
It is "characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma."
The other religion in Japan is Buddhism, which includes "the refutation of the notion of a supreme God or a prime mover is seen as a key distinction between Buddhism and other religions." That is why it is considered more of a "a spiritual philosophy."
How is Buddhism practised? "The trees, mountains, lakes, and sky [are considered] living and breathing with a variety of gods in charge."
Caliphatul Masih the fifth stated: 'Whenever any natural disaster occurs in the world, those who fear God are frightened lest any such future disaster puts them in difficulty [or] that any act of theirs may become a source of God’s displeasure.
Such thinking is only of true believers who have the insight and the perception that God does not need anyone and thus, with fear of God in their hearts, they try and tread the paths that lead to His pleasure.
God states in the Holy Qur’an: ‘Verily, those who, out of fear of their Lord, always stand guard against sins. And those who believe in the Signs of their Lord,’ (23:58 – 59).
The Surah goes on to state that these people do not ascribe partners to God and are not those who only remember God in difficult, turbulent times and forget Him in peaceful times. They turn to God with greater intensity in times when they face difficulties or observe climatic changes.
Hadhrat ‘Aishah (r.a.) narrates that: ‘Whenever there was a strong wind, the Holy Prophet (pbuh) used to say: ‘O Allah! I ask You for what is good in it, and the good which it contains, and the good of that which it was sent for. I seek refuge with You from what is evil in it, what evil it contains, and the evil of that what it was sent for; and when there was a thunder and lightning in the sky, his colour underwent a change, and he went out and in, backwards and forwards; and when the rain came, he felt relieved, and I noticed sign of relief on his face’.
Hadhrat 'A'ishah asked him about this and he answered: ‘It may be that these clouds are like those that had overcast the people of Ad. When they saw a cloud formation coming to their valley they said: ‘It is a cloud which would give us rain’. However, the cloud brought them a calamity
Please pray for all the Japanese. Pray that your family and all Americans are safe from such disasters.
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