Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why is the Coronavirus So Frightening
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so my dear brothers and sisters, and
dear friends whoever is listening at this time,
today's our day have read
something which Allah subhanaw taala gives us at the end of each
month of Ramadan every year.
A day of hospitality from Allah subhanaw taala.
This is probably an eat that we've never experienced before. Where
the majority of people will not be able to come to a masjid to pray.
And
the entire Ramadan went this way
that the majority of people probably did not get access to a
masjid and had to pray at home. hamdulillah Allah subhanaw taala
is still present.
He's always present. And that's why
we can pray anywhere. But a Muslim has a special
contact, an association with the Masjid. It's the house where they
go and they say along with daddy at walmart i had
my Allah, Oh Allah opened up the doors of your mercy for me. So
it's a place of mercy.
So this is what was missed. We ask Allah that He compensate everybody
first.
But the main thing is that it's a moment of reflection for us that
the entire month of Ramadan has gone.
In some countries, it's opened up in Australia, in some parts of
Australia 10 People can congregate in some parts. 20 people can
congregate. In Norway, 50 people can congregate in America, in some
states, people from congregate are here, we still have not opened up.
There could be various different reasons for that. Our job is to
pray to Allah subhanaw taala because whenever there's a
roadblock, whenever there's a hinderance whenever there's an
obstacle, we call Unto Allah subhanaw taala. And we do our
part, which is to make the effort.
Now, just to understand,
this is a time where atheism has been going on for many, many
years, and it's been in the forefront, doing away with all
forms of religion, especially in Europe, it done away with
Christianity. That's why the Christian faith has been pushed
out of the public sphere.
It's been pushed out of the media is the mainstream media, it's been
pushed out of workplaces, it's been pushed out of school. And
that's why Christians, Muslims, Jews and others have to actually
sometimes make a huge effort and fight and lobby to allow certain
religious
sentiments to be expressed in the schools or in workplaces and in
other places. So it's become a godless while Europe was a
Christian content before he became a godless continent.
Not just Europe, but many other parts in the world, Russia tried
to kill God. They thought God was dead. This is what some of the
prominent atheists said. Prominent communist said maybe 100 years
ago. But now they all is all saying that God cannot be killed
even in China, they tried to do the same thing. But Christianity,
and other faiths are increasing in China.
So God is not dead. And one of the biggest things that we see is that
in the current pandemic,
in a godless world
where it would be a selfish world, because there's no ethics, the
ethics come from, morality comes from Allah comes from a godly
system, whether that be Christianity or Islam, we think we
have the best system because of course, Watson came to complete
good character.
But what we saw is that economies had to be shut. Money had to be
lost. Business had to be closed down. We had to suffer the loss
just so you could save human lives. So it was able to save
human lives are saved the economy and save the money.
And eventually, nearly all countries make that decision that
human lives are more important than his money, we still see many
who are playing half of the game trying to open it up faster than
they should do.
And everybody wants everything to be opened up for different
reasons. But obviously politicians and so on, they obviously want it
open for economy, economic recovery, and to lessen the harm,
and so on. But this shows that the value of the human being
inherently everybody understands. And that's why businesses had to
take a loss for this to be important for this to work.
And
let us say that there were people who suffered in this. There's lots
of people who suffered with the COVID with the Coronavirus many,
many times as well. So now the question is, why'd they die? And
why did they suffer? What did they get out of it? So for an atheist,
for a person who doesn't have God, they will assume they will, they
will then have no reason for this, this will just be misery, for no
reason will be purposeless suffering,
because there's no way for them to go, the person suffering in the
world disappear from this world, that's it, all chances are gone
because there is no hereafter.
In Islam, the faith gives us an understanding that if you're
suffering
through a calamity, like that, which is not of your own making
and doing and it's not a punishment of Allah subhanaw
taala, then it is a source of mercy for you. And it's ultimately
a source of shahada for you possibly, which is martyrdom,
which makes us at least feel good about our loved ones who may have
gone like this, and many, many people went so
the problem with atheism is they assigns who and what we are, to
some aimless, mindless processes. Sometimes they say it's the genes
that are doing this. They're trying to give an answer why
certain things happen without a cause that you can see.
For us, it's easy to Allah, Allah made it happen. It's not a
coincidence. It's a coincidence.
So, for example, just about five days ago, 27 Nights, four days
ago, three days ago, 27 Tonight, one of my friends who was in
hydrogen is a doctor, he donated. He donated to
a masjid Goodson in America, he then donated to another mother in
America and then you don't need to wait for an institute.
They sponsored a student
and he said, Then he sent me a message.
He said, I was just thinking after this, that I need a team that my
balance my bank balance
and but
it's all for the good, so it's good. He says within 10 minutes,
or less than 10 minutes, he got a call
from someone for a consultation appointment for the next week.
Which is going to pay him about five times that amount that he
donated to us is that I wasn't expecting it. It came literally
out of the blue.
That's a coincidence Allah says and I know this person is
mashallah very faithful. In that sense. It's kind of huge, you
know, love for Allah and everything. So my Ucrete Allah
call them Hassan,
who's going to give Allah good below for your die for Allah is
going to modulate says within 10 minutes, it was magic. I was just
thinking, I've given all of this cleared up my balance now what?
But it's all done for a good reason. And he gets his contract.
And where does that come from? How is an atheist going to process
this information? For us? It's Allah. It's very much Allah. We've
all got experiences like this to show Allah is in our lives.
So one of the reasons why people suffered through this, and still
some people are suffering through this, even though things are
becoming better, why people suffered so much psychologically,
and so on and so forth. And many of us may not know that because
you're a person of faith, you probably did suffer. Personally, I
may not be a very strong person of faith, but I thoroughly thoroughly
thoroughly enjoyed the lockdown. And we should carry on.
Like, I'm actually scaling on them in the open up, right?
You see, because if you look at it, if you go back to the 16th
century,
there were constant visits from plagues in London. Many, many
people used to die. The black plague was a big one, but they
were constantly plagues. It was
quite a frequent occurrence. People were used to it
than if it wasn't for that then maybe the Vikings would come and
slit your throat at night. So there was that fear.
This sounds very familiar to some of the countries in the world.
Till now, but not for the UK, not for the Western countries.
People are forgetting that we all we already live
in a time when people are dying. It's the age of cancer,
AIDS, syphilis, train up accidents, car accidents, plane
accidents, paralysis, and then for many people in the world error
rates, and murder and killing.
So
the novelty of this pandemic was obviously exaggerated, maybe for
good reason. But it was exaggerated me bigger than I mean,
it was a big thing. There's no doubt. But there are so many other
ways people can die.
Because from the time we're born, we already sentenced to death.
We already come with a sentence of death. From the time we're born,
there's nobody that doesn't come with that sentence. Right before
any virus was revealed, released, even before November or December,
when it was first discovered in China,
we already had a sentence of death hanging on our head, and those
people who died, they were already sentenced to death.
And many of us who are sentenced to death, were going to die and
have died, and will die in unpleasant circumstances, not on
the bed. Not commonly, not through natural causes, but maybe from
unnatural causes. This is all just known and understood. So all the
virus did, let's just add in one more excuse.
One more way of sentencing a person to death. I don't want to
put it crudely. But if you look at the grand scheme of things, people
die in and out from various different things, and maybe even
more from certain things as compared to the virus. So that's
why death is certain as we know it, which Allah has mentioned,
called Lunasin, that control remote.
The other thing is, both from a Christian perspective, Christian
theological perspective, and assuming a Jewish perspective as
well. But definitely from a Muslim perspective, there's no promise
for a pain free life.
In fact, this word is called the Dow relic Tila in Arabic, the
abode of tests, and pains and trials. So anybody who doesn't
know that doesn't acknowledge doesn't accept it, is going to be
living in a very miserable world. And anybody acknowledges that when
you know something could happen. It's just easier to deal with it.
When you think it can't happen, and then it does happen is much
more difficult. So all psychology human being is a very
psychological being smart, you need to be prepared for all
eventualities. So then the question is that why does Why did
this Coronavirus cause so much panic.
So, what we have to realize, especially for people in the West,
is it for people in many people, not all people, but for many,
maybe even a majority of people in India, it wasn't the virus that
caused the panic, it was the fact that they will be able to eat,
they wouldn't be able to earn a living. Because they were day to
day workers. They were already suffering, they're already
struggling each day to put food on the distal hub.
So they were more afraid of dying from hunger than from sickness.
But for us in the West,
what we have to realize is that for a very long time, we've been
very secure.
We constantly read in the media, about areas of Palestine.
And people being burnt and evicted from their villages in Myanmar.
and suffering of people in places like Assam and Bangladesh and
India and other parts of the world.
We hear about that. But we then there are places where there's
constant floods and earthquakes. And we think London is very safe.
UK is very safe. We don't have those kinds of problems. So
especially in the West, we've been secure for a very long time.
hamdulillah Hamdulillah, not something to complain about. But
it's something to thank Allah for.
There's a lot of ailments that we just don't have here. We've got a
wonderful health system. We've got wonderful security, got a
wonderful welfare system. So
Allah lot of the ailments a lot of the diseases, right have been
eradicated or minimized. That were there for millennia, people used
to die from polio year in Century in Century out. And in this last
50 100 years, eradicated so many of these things, Do vaccines and
through other measures. And then there's a lot of other things
which happen in other parts of the world that don't happen with us.
Our economy is relatively
stable, doesn't have the fluctuations, as some other
currencies were one day they're wealthy the next day, they could
be poor, and they their money's worth nothing Hamdulillah. So
that's why the reason why
this has brought so much fear and panic is because we're just not
used to this kind of thing. It's been a very long time.
So why is because it now is reminding of our real
vulnerability, the Quran so many cases over and over again, Allah
subhanaw taala condemns those who are McAfee, who deny Allah
subhanaw taala. And his message because Allah constantly says in
nama Anwar that will either confirm or deny constantly, lots
of times if connects,
denied denial of Allah, with having a lot of with having
wealth, and children. Because when you have wealth and children, you
have stability, you have confidence, you feel you have
security, vulnerability goes out, because you feel like I'm very
stable. I am not in need, I've got my money, which can do a lot, I've
got influence, and I've got children, I've got influence. So
that gives you a false sense of security.
So then you forget your mortality, sorry, you forget your mortality,
which means you forget that you're going to die. And that death is
imminent, and it's gonna happen. And we already have a sentence of
death on us.
So this has shown us our vulnerability, and it's actually
showing us how vulnerable how helpless we are.
Because even the Prime Minister God's nobody was free from this.
Anybody can get it.
The wealthy the ones with good health care, access those with
private health care, access those without it, the old, the young,
everybody could get it. So it reminded us of our mortality. And
it also showed us how helpless we were. And it showed us that we
can't really control everything as we've been so used to doing to
them.
Because that's the Sunnah of Allah in the world that whenever things
get ahead,
right, remember, this whole new modern system is relatively new. A
few 100 years haven't passed over this little bit. 100 years of
crossover. We talk about Pharaoh he was there for hundreds of
years, when Musa Islamic dua
Robin it to Pharaoh no matter who, Xena UModel Phil higher to dunya
right? When Allah when Musa some harmonics are made dua to Allah,
Allah you've given failed so much of this world, a dome of this
world so that he could cause corruption and everything, you
should probably not miss either unwilling, or you should finish it
off.
Allah says kung fu G, but there are two coma, but it took about 40
years for that doll to be accepted. Allah has his own
timetable. But because we only have like 570 80 years, and we've
lived through this particular period, we feel like this is the
status quo. This is the norm.
So this is a major upheaval that we've experienced. And we don't
even know the harms of this yet. Because that's still going to come
about the long term. But anybody with faith and Iman is going to
see through this, they will have no post traumatic stress disorder
out of this, they're not going to worry about this because they know
this is normal, this is fine. They're enjoying this, in fact, to
a certain degree, they're riding the wave.
So
this shows us that we cannot control everything. And we just
hope that we can learn from this. The more people that learn from
this, the more people we can encourage to learn from this, the
better because at the end of the day, it could come back Allah
subhanaw taala could come with a more severe punishment. This was
bad, but it could have been worse.
They were expecting a lot more people to die. But mashallah, I
think a lot of people did turn to Allah subhanaw taala. And some of
the hospitals that they made didn't have to the USD. Otherwise
they're expecting a huge, much higher desktop. You know, the
numbers that were given at the beginning of Hamdulillah that did
not happen.
So
a few things that are important for us.
Especially since we've just come out of Ramadan. And now the
shaytaan is back. And we have to in Ramadan, you have a tight
schedule that is very religion oriented, very Ibaadat based,
surrounding Cuba because that's what good believers tried to do.
When Ramadan finishes you feel like because the shaytaan comes
back out you don't have the rigor of the fast and everything. So
what's important is to continuously make Dolma to Allah
subhanaw taala because we always make a little mistake or slip up
or do something so
optimal. That's why a constant doba and Raju Illa, Allah
returning to Allah is very important as Allah constantly
reminds us in the Quran
to illallah wa and Lesotho.
So Tibetan nesu constantly on a daily basis, we just repent for
ourselves. And it will just make us better people because that will
take off and eliminate the sins from our life. What we did since
yesterday, we did over today, we're forgiven. So we're
constantly going ahead with less baggage and burden. Number two,
which we generally don't hear about too much, is Allah subhanaw
taala. A lot of the thoughts, especially for most of us, is that
once we've said the Kenema, La ilaha illallah, and we've become
believers. That is enough, we've said Lila Hila. Now where Muslims
we just do worship, and ritualistically we just keep doing
stagnant. Whatever we're used to doing for the last 50 years, 30
years, 20 years, that's all we're gonna do.
But if you look at the understanding, if you look at for
example, sort of sorted, Hadid verse 16 Allah subhanaw taala
says, Hola, me, Nene Lilina Tasha, Apollonia Vickery LA, or Vanessa
laminal. Huck. Hasn't the time come for those who believe those
who say La ilaha illa. Those who say we believe in Allah, hasn't
the time come for them, that their hearts finally
develop a reverent fear for Allah, succumb and subjugate, humiliate
themselves and humble themselves for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala
give you an example. There are certain people who may live close
to a masjid. And for the last 30 years, 40 years. They come from
Joomla and that's it. They don't come to any one of us. They could,
it's not like they come, they don't just stagnant.
There are some people who
some women, for example, who do not wear hijab, and now the old
the grandmothers, but they still do not wear hijab.
It's there's no development, there's no development, the heart
has not succumbed, at least to that level. There's some people
when it comes to other forms of outward expression of faith, like
maybe a beard or something if the bat small from 40 years ago, 20
years ago, 10 years ago is still the same.
There are some people who
come to the masjid one Salah today and they could come more they
don't. Like that's enough for me. That's my Islam.
Now the thing is Allah subhanaw taala says, that eliminate many
livina and reduction of global mimicry Allah
has then the time come for those who believe Emmanuel, that their
hearts sobs, some
have
Dasha who is
humility, humbleness for Allah, where you just give yourself to
Allah subhanaw taala
for the Dhikr of ALLAH, so now they start remembering Allah, and
that which Allah has revealed of the truth.
And they do not become like those people, the people of the face
before kalorien O'Toole kita, running COVID Those who are given
books before like the Christians and Jews
who for they said they were safe for people they believed in the
book, but for a very long time they remained stagnant. So then
their hearts became hard for custard Kulu and the majority of
them were transgressors. Now, what's verse 17 was the next I
have sort of rallied after
elimu and Allah uveal are the backbone to what's the connection
between these two? This one is talking about the hearts are
coming and humiliating themselves for Allah the next verses, know
it, Allah would like know that Allah subhanaw taala revives the
earth after its death. You know, when there's a as we said, Bunger
is like just totally desolate, nothing's going anywhere. You work
on it, and the rain comes when you're irrigated and Allah
subhanaw taala enlivens it. So the connection between these two is
that Allah brings this idea straight after this one that if
you can take an example from your fields outside that they can be
brought back to life, your hearts can also be brought back to life.
That's why another reason certain Nyssa Allah says, Here are your
Lavina Amina Amina are people who believe
belief you already believe ALLAH is already saying oh people are
believed because when Allah speaks to non Muslims, he says yeah, you
are nurse. Yeah, you are insane when they stop
seem to believe it's in the grand draw. He says, Yeah, you're
looking at Amazon. Right? That's you can tell the difference. So he
says, oh, people who believe me don't believe.
Marana would have seen the graphic de la he's written a book. And in
there, he mentioned that this is about hdwd of email, reviving your
faith. So this idea that we're Muslims because we were born
Muslim, or we took shahada five years ago, 20 years ago for
converts, and now we're sorted. No, you have to actually revive
your faith. If you look at the Quran, I just did that Tafseer and
amazing the message of the Quran
number one,
Allah subhanho wa Taala you see constantly throughout Allah is
emphasizing a few things emphasizes on barbil maruf and the
healing will come because that's the only way our deen is gonna to
help your own family to understand that the in prohibit them from the
wrong encourage them not to do wrong encourage them to do the
right and others as far as possible. Number two, Aquino Salah
establish the prayer anybody who reads the Quran still doesn't pray
I can't believe that that would be possible. Because a constant
message of chemo Salah will add to this occur and protect yourself.
However, the more underlying theme to that.
For example, Allah subhanaw taala says in the solid Luma or here
they communicate Abu Hakim is Salah, in the Salah, the tender
and in fascia you will conquer whether we call Allahu Akbar,
Allah in another place as Hakim is Salah. Televic well as it grew
Allahu Akbar in another place. The main reason that Allah wants from
us in solid and everything else is actually to remember not just to
do the acts, the whole point of the salad salad is just one of the
most comprehensive means of the Dhikr of Allah. Because it's the
only musical aside from AXA, it's the only vehicle aside from hedge
in which you use your body to do the
otherwise for the for the SVI you Say Subhan Allah use your tongue
for Dummies you said Hamdulillah you use your tongue for Karim
Allah Allah Allah Allah use your tongue for dilution if you use
your tongue, right for hand, use your tongue. Everything else you
use your tongue, the only time you physically use yourself is the
salaat where you actually supposed to stand bow prostrate, and so on
and turn your head and all of the rest of it. All of that is part of
the should be for reminding us of Allah. Not only other worship,
which you do once in a while, and some people will only do it once
in their life is the hydrogen going from maca? Maca, Amina Amina
to refer to our file all of this out of our misery for a minute,
all of this, all of that is a walking vicar of Allah for the
person who's got the right touch.
So that's why the main purpose of our Salah is also the remembrance
of Allah. So when you read the Quran,
what you will get from the Quran is essentially just the various
different names of Allah subhanaw taala, that we will see them in
action. Sometimes Allah subhanaw taala is showing us mercy.
Sometimes he is showing his mind. Sometimes it's punishing,
sometimes is compassion. That's all you'll see in the whole Quran
is just to encourage people to remember Allah
to remember Allah in your daily life. And the way you can start
remembering Allah is to become more conscious of what is our
requirement and why we're doing it to get to the most spiritual,
underlying aspect about being so why we pray, not just that I
finish it off, and I just completed but why am I praying.
And this is not the time to explain the various different ways
of improving our prayer for the remembrance. But let's just take
one message home from this thing, all of this thing we need to come
out of this pandemic with a better,
better person in all of us because every individual who becomes
better, will inshallah help the rest of the community that would
be that one more person in the dunya, who is going to attract
more mercy from Allah subhanaw taala. So we all contribute, don't
think we're insignificant, every one of us is significant, and
plays a part in this. So let us not forget that. And the way to do
that is to get closer to the Quran to closer to Allah by remembering
him more and reviving our faith and constantly in the focus of
updating our faith, of refreshing our faith, then it doesn't matter
what our faith was like before just like Allah subhanaw taala
will take that desolate, earth and ground and field and crop and
bring it into something living in sha Allah Allah subhanaw taala
will do that for us as well. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to assist
us and to open up these massages again make us worthy of that mercy
because
If the massages have been closed and the massage are the places of
the Mercy of Allah because that's the DUA we read when we come
inside, is it that he doesn't want to give us that mercy. That's why
we've been prohibited from coming into the ministry.
That's something to really think about. So we need to become
entitled and worthy of the Mercy of Allah again. And then this
massager you open up in sha Allah, may Allah make us worthy of
his Rama and his mercy in the Allah grant us compassion through
the Dawa, and hamdulillah