Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – COVID or no COVID Up to Allah
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And it's amazing how COVID effects different people.
You know, subhanAllah, after having personally experienced it,
it's just strange you get you get some families where everybody gets
affected.
Now while there is some prediction, there is some
understanding about what it does that the older the person is, then
they there's more of a chance of actually dying from this and being
in a critical state with this, and the younger you are like children.
However, despite that, there are still very young people who are
dying. I mean, I know of several people who are younger than me
that passed away. And people who are just a bit older than me, like
three, four or five years older than me, like shaking, Luton just
passed away, I'm sure he was no more than 345. May Allah bless him
and his family and give patients to everybody, to all all the loved
ones that people have left behind me, Allah gone and beautiful
patients and increase the agile, but he was only about four or
five, maybe years older than me,
then what happens is that there's one person who told me that
his daughter brought it in from school, the family all had
symptoms, but he tested negative and his wife tested positive, yet
he had systems or symptoms, whether you can call it a flu in
the test, or whatever the case is. And they weren't doing much
isolation. Yet they had, they had symptoms, some had it worse than
others. In my case, I had symptoms.
And we, you know, we didn't really know what it was in the beginning.
So there wasn't much, there wasn't much isolation, to be honest with
the rest of the family, but nobody else got it.
Then when somebody does get it, it affects them in different ways.
Some people just get headaches, some people have a temperature,
some people get a sore throat, some people lose their taste, and
smell handleiding I got a bit of temperature and a bit of backache.
But other than that, I'll hamdulillah there was nothing
else. Yet. There's other people who get it differently, it's
unpredictable, what's going to happen with it, there are some
common symptoms, there's some level of understanding of what it
is. But it's up to Allah at the end of the day, what we have to
understand from this is that there's lots of things in this
world that when you do them, there's going to be a certain
effect, that's the custom of Allah, that's how he's made it.
And that's why we avoid those things. For example, if somebody
shoots somebody in the head, they're probably gonna die most of
the time, but sometimes they may not just in case, it just, you
know, misses the critical part. Sometimes somebody really, really,
you know, club is somebody on the head, they're probably going to
die. But some people survive with just brain damage. Or without
that, it just depends, you shoot somebody in the heart, they're
most likely going to die. Right? So
Allah subhanaw, taala, it's up to him. And he's totally, you know,
there's a certain understanding. So likewise, with COVID, there's
an understanding that you do catch it from others. But there are so
many families that as a person has got it, there was no isolation and
the others didn't catch it. I'm not saying that that's what you
must do. You obviously take precautions, because, you know,
we're not supposed to be foolish and silly, and so bold, that we
take risks for no reason. But sometimes, obviously, in the
house, it's difficult to completely isolate. But what's
interesting is that it's up to Allah. That's what I want to point
out from this, that it's up to Allah.
You know, I got it, nobody else in my family got it, they were all
negative.
Right? They were all negative. So it's up to Allah. You know, we did
try to be careful, I did try to eat separately and so on. Right.
But by the time we actually found out that I was positive, it was a
bit too late, but hamdulillah nobody got it. And then the other
person I know was saying that he had symptoms but he's negative.
Now that could be a test problem.
Subhanallah it's up to Allah at the end of the day, we must be
careful, but our hope and trust is in Allah that Allah make this less
and we use, you know, whatever, natural and other medicines that
we can all have that is within our code. But the main thing is that
it's up to Allah, Allah. Allah knows how exactly this COVID is
going to affect different people.