Each community has a predetermined lifespan that cannot be delayed or advanced, and community here means a nation such as the Roman Empire.1, 2, 3
Messengers remind people of God's laws and mention no other name besides God, and when a community rebels against them, retribution comes to it quickly.1, 2, 3
In God's system the believers are always saved first, whether they are one or one million, and then the disbelievers are destroyed.1, 2, 3, 4
Lot's people rejected the warnings and were showered with rocks, while Lot's family was saved as a reward for the appreciative.1, 2, 3
Lot's people were wicked homosexuals, giving homosexuals their so called right does them no favor, and AIDS strikes them selectively as retribution.1, 2, 3, 4
The people of Thamud rejected Saleh, slaughtered the camel sent as a test, and were destroyed by one strike.1, 2, 3
God is fair: Pharaoh's people deserved drowning after receiving clear proofs and enough warnings, including plagues after which they kept reneging.1, 2, 3
Thamud disobeyed God's messenger, slaughtered God's camel, and were annihilated, and we are told to learn from such examples.1, 2, 3
Earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes that strike idol worshipers and disbelievers are punishment from God, even though most people do not believe it.1, 2, 3
Disasters like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah are commanded by God, and only God controls the time of death and identifies who will die.1, 2
People bring destruction on themselves, as Sodom and Gomorrah did by becoming corrupt beyond reform, and it is God's law that such people are destroyed.1, 2, 3
Today, with homosexuals spread through society, God sends a virus to pick them out rather than destroying whole cities, and AIDS is mainly a homosexual disease.1, 2, 3
Anyone or any society that opposes God and His messenger will eventually be wiped out and defeated, as recorded in the Quran.1, 2
Destruction is the inevitable consequence of disbelieving, and as Noah's rejecters were drowned, it will happen to our generation too.1, 2, 3
God's system never changes, and what happened with Noah and the earlier messengers is happening again right now with the same message and the same consequences.1, 2, 3
When corruption, lawlessness, and disobedience of God take over the earth, God destroys it, as He did in Noah's time.1, 2, 3
Those who disbelieve will continue to suffer disasters as a consequence of their works until God's judgment comes.1
God sends no retribution without first sending a messenger; after 1400 years without messengers, all the signs point to a terrible retribution coming to the Muslim world.1, 2, 3
God's warnings and teachings are for our benefit, since God needs no one; when people persist in ignoring them they inevitably bring retribution on themselves.1, 2, 3
Noah's flood was local, around where the Dead Sea is now, not universal, and his ark was logs tied with primitive ropes carrying his family and needed animals, not all animals.1, 2, 3, 4
Pharaoh and his people kept reneging despite the miracles Moses brought, so God was fair in drowning them after enough warnings, and Pharaoh's body is in the Cairo Museum.1, 2, 3
Every past nation that disbelieved its messengers incurred inevitable retribution.1
There are four kinds of disasters: the admission test, blessings in disguise, educational disasters, and retribution against people corrupted beyond reform.1, 2, 3, 4
The fourth kind is the retributive disaster, which strikes a society or person corrupted beyond reform, as with Sodom and Gomorrah, and it is the only kind one may attribute to God.1, 2, 3
Every community receives a warner, and each messenger asked no wage yet was ignored, taunted, or even killed by his people.1, 2
Noah was ridiculed by his people while warning them, and he was saved while all the disbelievers drowned in the flood.1
History should be studied so we learn from mistakes; the Quran is full of lessons, yet communities keep repeating the failures of earlier communities.1
God sends His messengers just ahead of retribution for the disbelievers, so sending a messenger to this generation marks that retribution as imminent.1, 2
The retribution for disbelievers is proportional to the greatness of the miracle, so today's disbelievers face an especially severe retribution.1, 2, 3
Nations and individuals who do not uphold what God has enjoined are destined to fail if they keep that stance.1
Lot's people practiced homosexuality, highway robbery, and all kinds of vice, and they rejected Lot because of his purity and steadfastness.1, 2, 3
Noah, Hud, Saleh, Lot, and Shu'aib are only a few of God's messengers, and their order in suras 7, 11, and 26 is the correct chronology even though other places order them differently.1, 2
Saleh was popular in Thamoud until he told them to worship God alone, and after they killed the camel God told him they had only three days left.1, 2, 3
The people of 'Ad inherited after Noah and were blessed by God, but their fine buildings made them vain and aggressive, and their punishing storm left their homes standing.1, 2, 3
The Quran says the history of destroyed communities is a lesson, but most people are not believers.1
The misery in the Middle East is no coincidence but a consequence of these communities' actions against God, who never annihilates a righteous community unjustly.1, 2, 3
Few in past generations forbade evil and deserved to be saved, while the transgressors were preoccupied with their material luxuries.1
God never wronged the destroyed past communities; they wronged their own souls, and their fate is a lesson.1, 2
God's system is unchangeable, so we must study and avoid the sins of past communities, such as idol worship, homosexuality, corruption, and cheating, or share their fate.1
Lot's people practiced homosexuality, highway robbery, and vice, rejected him for his purity, and were destroyed by being turned upside down and showered with rocks.1, 2
Midyan was made prosperous but grew greedy, cheated in business, corrupted the earth, and valued Shu'aib's tribe over God, and an earthquake on the Day of the Canopy destroyed them.1, 2