The L.A. Fires: An Opportunity to Course-Correct

Well, there are two things that happened lately in The US. Two things that happened that really reveal popular contempt for the elites, for the rich, for those at the top of the economic and political and really the cultural system in The United States. It showed how resentful and how bitter and well, there's not another way to put it really. How vengeful the masses feel towards the people who are running the power structure in America. First, you had the killing of the United Healthcare CEO, allegedly by Luigi Maggioni, and that turned him instantly into a folk hero.

And there was an explicit lack of any sympathy for the man who was killed among the public. And second, there's the, fires in Los Angeles that are ongoing. The public, popular response, to what is now regarded as the most devastating natural disaster to ever strike The United States has been noticeably different than the response to, say, hurricane Katrina or any other disaster in The US. Because, of course, the perception is that the fires are ravaging the mansions of millionaires and billionaires. That they're they're ravaging the mansions of probably people who were on the guest list of ditty parties, and who were on the the guest list of Epstein Island, you know, Hollywood executives, elites, the architects of popular culture, the crafters of official narratives, you know, the chief masterminds, and the generously paid collaborators of the corruption industry in Hollywood, egomaniacal celebrities and so on.

Nobody is weeping, for their burned out palaces and swimming pools, just as no one was mourning over the death of that CEO who oversaw a system, that was built on being paid to deny people vital health care. And it was being paid to ensure that their customers were not only sick but also poor. No one felt bad about that. And of course for many many people in The US and many people obviously around the world, the LA fires looked like a divine punishment, for those people, those exact people who are enabling and who are complicit in the genocide in Gaza. I mean, are whole neighborhoods now in LA that look just like Gaza, that look just like how Gaza has looked for the last more than a year.

But in my opinion, this is a a a a superficial take on what's going on. Because look, when you decide to do something, what you're actually choosing is in fact the consequences of the action that you're taking. That's what your that's the choice that you're making. And if you don't understand this reality, if you don't understand the reality of the justice that Allah embedded into what you can call the coding of creation, coding of reality, then you won't understand this. I mean, most people do conceptualize or conceptually understand that every action has a consequence, but they don't necessarily understand that.

Therefore, when you choose to do an action, what you are actually choosing, is to bring about the consequence of that action, good or bad. In other words, when the consequences reach you for your actions, that's not divine intervention. That's just you getting what you already chose to get. This is why Allah says in the Quran, corruption has spread on the land and on the sea as a result of what people's hands have done. So that Allah may cause them to taste some of their deeds, and perhaps they might return to the right to the right path.

You see, this is just a taste of what you yourselves have done. It's just a taste so that you can understand and so that you can realize how bitter it is. Just like when you when when you, taste a dish that you're preparing. If you're making a dish and you taste it and it's repulsive or it's horrible or it's impossible to eat, well, you know that you're doing something terribly wrong. And you need to change the ingredients.

You need to change the recipe. And the ingredients that you've been using, are all poisonous. The recipe is toxic. You're preparing a dish of blood for yourselves. It's an evil meal that you're preparing.

See, if you don't understand how justice works, then you won't understand that. You won't understand, that all of the evil, all of the brutality, all of the inhumanity that you're practicing as a nation, it's nothing but you choosing to impose upon yourselves the consequences of those actions. You think it's just you doing it to others. You know, you think that you're only victimizing others, but in fact you're victimizing your own selves. You're victimizing your own society.

You're victimizing your own so called civilization by your actions. This is a meal that you are preparing for yourselves. And right now, you're getting a taste of it, just a taste. This is Allah trying to prompt you, trying to kick start some dormant sense of human empathy by giving you a taste of the horror and the destruction that you have visited upon, not just Gaza, but upon millions of people around the world, including in your own country. So I wouldn't say this is a punishment.

No. I would say this is a chance. This is an opportunity to course correct, to try to change your recipe, change your ingredients, which is really just another way of saying repent. Consequences are like guardrails on the side of the road, you know, or like those rumble strips on the side of the highway that alerts a driver when they're veering too away too far off from the center line. You know, those little studs in the pavement on the on the on the shoulder of the road.

Well, that's what consequences are. It's just a way of telling you that you're veering from your own safety, and you're about to crash. And crashing, crashing is the punishment. Crashing is the punishment that comes when you ignore consequences, so you need to take heed. This is an opportunity for you to take heed because your collective actions as a nation amount to preparing a cyanide meal for yourselves that you will inevitably have to consume.

And there's simply no way that you can look around your society right now. There's no way that you can look around The US right now and say that you have not been warned.