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I will be sadri where Sili amri

Wahlural rach that I'm in the Sunni

of Kowkowli, what al-Hah al-Ola al-Aun al-La al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-a. Tia with you in this chuteba is the meaning of a word that is commonly translated as

calamity or difficulty. The Quran's word is musseba. Some of you that are from

the southeast Asian subcontinent, a lot of people use the word musibat and use it for a terrible thing that's happened.

It comes from the Arabic verb a Sabah which actually means to hit a target or to correctly hit a target.

And the Quran is very strategic in using this term as opposed to karitha which means tragedy or some terrible event or something like that.

It strategically uses the word

Museba to suggest that whatever thing has struck

Struck right on target and right on time and it couldn't have hit anybody else. So whatever calamity has taken place is not an accident.

There's no question why is this happening to me? It could only have happened to you. It couldn't have happened to anybody else.

Why is this happening now? It could only have happened now. It couldn't have happened at any other time because it's right on target. It's the thing that hits on target. That's the term that's used for difficult circumstances or situations that we find ourselves in in life.

And life is full of them.

Allah al-A-Zawja says the Kallachalakn al-Insanathi Kabbad, we created the human being in the

middle of a lot of difficult labor, toil.

So that's just part of human life.

And by the way, what are the natures of these calamities?

We're not just on the one hand talking about things like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions or tornadoes and hurricanes and rainstorms and things like that right so that is a reality and that's why

Allah says in another place my al-Sabakum in Musibati in Phil Ardi.

No calamity that strikes to you on the earth, meaning earth-related calamities

you can even argue here.

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