11. THE DIVINE PUNISHMENT
I often hear news of some esteemed people from society assuming high positions that they drink alcohol, commits sins in public, oppress people and other crimes that deserve punishment in religion.
I remain thinking when will the time come that these crimes be established against them so they receive the prescribed punishment?
And if this ever happens, who will dare to establish the punishment against them? It is something I believe will not happen because of their high positions in this worldly life.
I continued to wonder about how the set punishments are not being applied until I saw them being inflicted with catastrophic events over and over again.
So in return for their oppression, their wealth was taken away from them. They were imprisoned and humiliated and even killed as a recompense for what they had committed. I then realised that Allah never forgets anything! So beware, for punishment is always near!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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