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My brothers and sisters, Allah asks us Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to travel the earth looking at what has happened to the previous nations.

In order for us to take heed and to learn a lesson,

and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala also instructs us to read about the previous nations.

Therefore, in the Quran, in many places he has told us about the previous nations, what they were involved in,

the messengers that came to them, what exactly those messengers said, how the response was,

and the time they were given thereafter, the type of punishment that they received.

And Allah says, all these stories have in them lessons for those with sound intellect.

In the same way, Allah says, if you were to travel the land, you will see people whom we've destroyed before you.

They had more than you. They were much more powerful than you.

Don't think for a moment that Allah is incapable of dealing with you.

Now I know this might sound harsh to some, but it is necessary as a reminder.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is simply trying to bring us closer to Him in many different ways,

giving us the reminders of being good, the reminders of obeying instruction,

as well as staying away from prohibition, what would happen if we were to leave the instructions

or engage in the prohibitions, and what happened to those in the past who did not obey.

So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in verse number 6, as well as in fact verse number 6 and 11.

Of this particular Surah, Surah Al-An'an. Allah says,

Do they not see how many of the previous generations we have destroyed before them,

whom we had actually given much more than what we had given them. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

And then Allah says,

I think this is something important because when we read the stories of the previous nations,

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