Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – COVID or no COVID Up to Allah

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.