A disaster is a serious disruption occurring over a relatively short period of time, affecting the functioning of a community or a society as it causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
According to ahadith, for everything there is a calamity. This presentation contains ahadith from Masumeen defining the calamities of knowledge, worship, wealth, generosity, power and others.