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Dear Muslims, we are witnessing a tragedy at a global scale, the likes of which we could never have imagined even a week ago, much less a month ago or a year ago.

Around the globe what we are seeing, of shutting down of cities, of shutting down of massages, of the fear, of the great trepidation that is afflicting all of us.

If this is not going to cause us to stop in our tracks, if this is not going to cause us to reflect and to ponder and to think, then what is ever going to cause us to change?

Dear Muslims, today is Khutba that I am going to give and it is a symbolic Khutba. I have never in my life given a Khutba to an audience and an MSJ that is this empty.

It is a symbolic Khutba, it is being given to remind ourselves, to remind the Ummah that there is a reason why this is happening.

Dear Muslims, we need to understand what Allah Azza Wajal tells us in the Quran, Surat Al-Anfal verse 53,

That is because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will never take away a blessing that he has gifted to a people, Allah will never lift up a blessing that he has gifted to the people unless and until they change something in themselves.

The blessing of peace, the blessing of security, the blessing of going about wherever we wanted to go, the blessing of society, all of this has been lifted up and it has been replaced with a fear, with an uncertainty, it has been replaced with death being close to us.

And Allah Azza Wajal does not change the status of a people until they change what is in themselves, until they change the status of a comb until they have changed themselves.

And when Allah wills to inflict a punishment upon a people, no one can come between Allah and Allah's punishment and they have no one to turn to for protection other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, nothing will protect me and you, nothing will save me and you other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Now is the time to ask ourselves why is this happening, why are khutbas being given an empty massage, why are masters being shut down, why is commerce and industry coming to an end, when we thought we had reached our pinnacle, when we thought we had come to the top of civilization in an instance,

between a morning and an afternoon, everything changed upon us and Allah Azza Wajal sent upon us a plague, a disease that no one could have predicted and no one even knows how to protect themselves against, why is this happening, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reminds us in the Quran.

Which is fitnah, which is a type of evil, which is a type of trial and tribulation, Allah has caused chaos to spread in this earth, why?

Because of what we ourselves have done, it is the effects of our own selves, this is something that we don't hear too many people say, it is something that is politically incorrect to say, it is something that hardly any preacher of any religion says and when they say it, they are mocked and made fun of,

that does not change the reality, why is this happening to us, Allah does not send upon people, plagues and diseases unless there is something that they have collectively done, Hassan Al-Bassari, the famous tabiri, he commented on this verse and he said, because of their own sins, Allah sends fitnah and fasad down, because of what they have done, Allah sends down plagues and calamities.

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