Summary of Sunni concepts Serious and widespread sins lead to torment The spread of sins in any nation A herald of her torment or destruction God Almighty said Those who commit crimes will be minor before God And a severe punishment because of what they were plotting And the Almighty said Have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them? We established them in the land unless We plotted against you And We sent the sky raining rain upon them and made rivers flow beneath them So We destroyed them for their sins and created after them another generation So He said, “So We destroyed them because of their sins.” It establishes the fact that sins cause the destruction of those who commit them And God is their destroyer This is last year Even if the individual or generation did not see it in his short, limited lifespan It is not a condition that destruction come by an urgent disaster from God As was the case in previous nations Rather, it may come through slow dissolution Which runs through the body of the nation while it is trapped in a maze of sins