COMMENT | The recent anti-Muslim violence across parts of Nepal - where mobs vandalised mosques, burned copies of the Quran, and targeted Muslim communities - left a deep wound across the global ummah.

However, as catastrophic flash floods recently thundered through Nepal’s northern river valleys, a troubling narrative surfaced across social media: celebrating the tragedy as targeted divine retribution.

While human emotion naturally seeks justice, projecting divine wrath onto a natural disaster fundamentally misrepresents...