Advice To The People Regarding The Coronavirus

Sheikh AbdulAziz al-Rajihi’s Advice to the People regarding the Corona virus is:

• to return to Allaah the Exalted in repentance and in supplication, and;
• by displaying submission and humility before Him, and;
• by putting one’s trust unto Him, and;
• by taking the means for precaution for verily Tawakul upon Allaah necessitates reliance upon Him, the Exalted, along with taking the necessary means."

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Advice to the people regarding the Corona Virus

[The Telegram channel of Sheikh AbdulAziz al-Rajihi]
 Translated by: Omar Al-Maghraby
(Toronto Dawah)

Power of Allaah

 

This is the Power of Allaah

No guns, no bombs, no noise…

One virus, one disease..

And the world has been

Brought to a standstill,

Brought down on its knees,

This is all it took

For me and you

To realize how

Powerless we truly are..

Will you then deny?

Deny that you will

be brought back to

Him!!!

~ Thought provoking

Islaamic perspective during an Epidemic

 

Naseeha by: Umm Hyatt حفظها الله

Suhaib reported that Allaah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم said: Strange are the ways of a believer, for there is good in every affair of his and this is not the case with anyone else except in the case of a believer... for if he was blessed with delight and goodness that which brought him pleasure, he is thankful - thus there is good for him in it....

....and when he is tested with difficulty, hardship and affliction and shows resignation (i.e. endures it patiently while expecting a reward from Allaah سبحانه و تعالى)... then there is good for him in it! And this affair is only for the believer!!

Graded: Authentic

*Benefits from the hadeeth*

The true believer is always in the blessings of His Caretaker, Allaah سبحانه و تعالى, whether he was granted that which he loves or afficted with that which he disliked.

Don't Fear Death!

Sheikh Muhammad ba Jamaal حفظه الله said in the Dars (lesson) yesterday:

"Don't fear death!! Death will reach you wherever you are. What you have to fear is being in the state of disbelief and disobedience when death approaches you. If Allaah has written your death and you are upon His obedience, you will be saved from the greatest of losses (Hell-Fire). Therefore, I advise my brothers not to leave off the worship of Allaah in the Masjid but to increase in worship, dua and obedience."

Note: (Praying in Masjid if you are permitted to do so in the country you reside in due to the spread of the virus)

(Sheikh from Sayoon, Yemen) 

Translated by Umm Hyatt حفظهآ الله

Islaamic perspective of Disease

Sheikh Saleh al Fawzaan حفظه الله

It is not permissible for a person to believe that the disease is spread by itself (that it has its own will and ability). Rather, it only spreads by the command (and permission) of Allaah سبحانه و تعالى. So one should have reliance (tawakkul) upon Allaah, make Dua to Him azzawajal and stay away from the (places and people) of this contagious disease.

Translated by Umm Hyatt حفظهآ الله

Comforts & Luxuries

Sheikh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaimeen رحمه الله تعالى said:

"The more people increase in comfort and luxury and the more they open up before the people [with the Dunya], the more evils will open up before them. It is comfort and luxury that destroys a person. Because if a person was to concern himself with comfort and luxury and providing enjoyment to his body, he will become negligent of providing enjoyment to his heart, and his greatest worry will become providing enjoyment to this body that is doomed to become worms and rotten.

This is the ordeal, and this is what has harmed people today. You can hardly find anyone except that they say: "What is our palace? What is our car? What is our furniture? What is our food?" Even those who study [Islaamic] knowledge, some of them only study in order to gain rank or status to reach the blessings of the Dunya. As if man was not created for a significant purpose. The Dunya and its blessings are only a means, nothing more. We ask Allaah to make us and you use it as a means.

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله تعالى said:

"A person should use money as he uses a donkey to ride, and as he uses the toilet to relieve himself."

Not Everyone Is Suitable To Be Your Friend

Ibnul-Qayyim رحمه الله تعالى said:

“Know that the greatest of losses is for you to be preoccupied with one who will bring you nothing but a loss in your time with Allaah سبحانه و تعالى  and being cut off from Him, a wasting your time with the person, a weakening of your energy, and the dispersing of your resolve. So, if you are tested with this – and you must be tested with this – deal with him according to how Allaah would wish, and be patient with him as much as possible. Get closer to Allaah and His Pleasure by way of this person, and make your getting together with him something to benefit from, not something to incur a loss from.

Don’t just be patient

Don’t just be patient, be patient and along with that hope for a reward from Allaah سبحانه و تعالى for your patience during your calamity

Sheikh ibn Uthaimeen رحمه الله تعالى said, 

 

“Indeed when a person faces calamities with patience [but] without hoping for a reward from Allaah, the calamity will become an expiation for his sins. And if he shows patience along with hoping for a reward [from Allaah], then along with being an expiation for his sins it becomes a good recompense and reward. And the meaning of hoping for Allaah’s reward [al-Ihtisaab] is that a person believes that he will soon be rewarded for the patience [he is showing], so he makes good his thoughts about Allaah and thus Allaah سبحانه و تعالى, will give him [a reward] according to what he thought of Him.”

{At-Ta’leeq alaa Saheeh Muslim, p. 342}.