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Today's Q&A will be a special one and it will deal with the tragic incident that took place here in Dallas yesterday was discovered for those of you that are not aware this is an incident that is shaking our entire city of Dallas where a very sad tragedy occurred of a murder suicide.

An entire family of six individuals they were killed by two of their own family members who were suffering from years of depression and suicide and one of them left a note in which he explained and he it was his final if you like note to the world and it's a very troubling note and this community has understandably rattled all of us it has shaken us all to the core and there has been a lot of speculation and a lot of questions

and the community is looking for looking for some type of explanation some type of answers so today inshaAllah we're going to just discuss some of the things not not specific to this particular case only rather to extrapolate from this so that inshaAllah we can prevent any such thing to the best of our ability from ever happening again so we begin by asking Allah's help us a very very sensitive topic and I am cognizant of the fact that the wounds are

still fresh this was only discovered yesterday and it's a very senseless tragedy in na lillahi wa inna ilahi raja'un indeed these are times when faith brings us solace and comfort in na lillahi wa inna ilahi raja'un all of us belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and all of us shall return to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we send our sincerest condolences to the family and to the friends of all six who are deceased

our du'az our prayers we ask Allah to give those that are alive amongst their family and friends subr and we also make du'az for all those who have passed away at some level they are all victims it's not our role to judge their fate in the hereafter here I refer to those who perpetrated the actual crimes it's not our role to assign to them any blame or not that is in the courts of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the hereafter

not to justify or to minimize but rather this is a plea to act sensibly in the aftermath of a horrible of a horrific tragedy that is something that is so senseless I mean our hearts yearn for each and every person you know that has lost his or her life

three children two adults one grandparent six family members all of them their their their lives came to a a tragic end and this is not the time nor is there anything to be gained by passing judgements on specific individuals the goal really is to discuss topics that are relevant to all of us based upon this one incident yes but relevant to much broader communities and so that insha'Allah

to Allah we can try our best to minimize perhaps even to prevent any such incident or tragedy from ever happening again so we're going to elaborate and extract some of the points that have come to to my mind and I ask Allah for to

and I ask Allah as well for forgiveness if I overlook certain things or if certain things come out incorrectly it's a very sensitive topic and frankly no matter what one says justice cannot be done and no matter which words one uses you're going to have people who are not satisfied on either side and this is not so my goal is not really to my goal is really to make sure that we try our best that this type of tragedy is so

that we're going to be spotted to the greatest extent possible and prevent it that's really what it's all about but I want to begin by moving a little bit theological that it's a times like these when belief in qadar brings about a sense of solace belief in qadar helps us grapple because you know we try to rationalize why is this happening and what is the wisdom and in the end of the day even if we don't understand the wisdom

we understand that no one can escape the qadar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we are all bound by what is decreed and at some level even if we do not understand we must accept qadar and in that acceptance there is an element of consolation and there is an element of relegating the affairs to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

when you see bana illa maqatab Allah ulana huwa maulana nothing is going to happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us he is our protector so in Allah let those who put their trust put their trust so nothing will happen except what Allah has decreed and Allah says in the Quran in particular about death in particular about death in the battle of Uhud some of the hypocrites criticize the Muslims and they said oh if you had only

done such and such nobody would have died if you had only listened to us they wouldn't have died and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed in the Quran that those whose debts had been pre-destined those whose debts had been pre-decreed by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala even if they had stayed at home they would have gone out of their houses and they would have met their debts at the time and the place and the manner that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had decreed for them

wa maqan al-inafsin anta-muta illa bi-idhi nillahi kitaban mo'ajjala no soul can die except with the idhan of Allah it is in a book that is khlas it is done kitaban mo'ajjala it is now inscribed in the book no one controls the destiny of their own death Allah

as Zawajal has decreed it and Allah says in the Quran when their time of death comes they can neither move it forward nor push it back they cannot change it

they can't even push it an hour or bring it back an hour our debts are pre-determined and pre-decreed by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the time of our death the manner of our death and even the location of our death as Allah says in the Quran

that wa maqan al-inafsin bi-idhi nafsin bi-idhi nillahi kitaban mo'ajjala no soul knows in which land even they will pass away

as subhanahu wa ta'ala the tragedy the grandmother who lost her life she was actually visiting her daughter she didn't even live in Dallas

she was just visiting for a period of time and she was going to return to her family elsewhere and Allah's

brother was that she would meet her death here so we ask Allah that all of the you know the parents and the

grandparents and the and the child we ask that they are granted the death of a of a shahid so we begin by reminding ourselves of qadr why because in qadr we find comfort for the past and I have said

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