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Assalamu alaykum wrwb
My dear brother’s and sisters,
I am writing about the pandemic that is spread around the world today by the name of Corona or Covid–19. What is the secret that is hidden behind this pandemic? In general, every person is wondering how it came about, and different people have different opinions about its origins etc. We are not limited by our thinking and are free to extend the range of thoughts, however if we can understand a situation well we can find solutions to it easily too. From my limited understanding what I could understand about this pandemic – Islam vs Corona.
The entire universe and everything in it was created by Allah through his divine power. The moon, stars, sky, land, water, everything on the ground, what is under this ground. Allah didn’t take the help of anyone in making this. He didn’t ask anyone to help me in making this. He runs the entire world with his divine will. And without doubt he is in full control of everything. Man forgets that Allah swt did not just make this world and leave it as it is. It is in complete control of everything. If He orders even a grain of sand to enter someone's eyes, it will fly and enter the eye. This is the level of control Allah has over every matter. On a dark night, what an ant is doing, where it’s going, Allah is fully concerned. Allah has made this world, and is in control and is running it however He wishes to. It is a big fallacy of man to forget this reality. He is busy chasing the world and constantly running behind it forgetting that what he is running behind is in the control of Allah. And not just the world but the entire universe. What Allah is created is not free for usage. It is not a fairy tale to exist, use all His creations, the wind, the sun, the moon, the sky. Does it ever happen like this? This is man’s greatest error in judgement. There is a big secret hidden in this. The fish swimming in water does not realise what will happen to it if it is taken out of water. It will be cut, marinated, fried, it’s meat eaten and bones fed to cats and dogs. Similarly man does not realise what is going to happen to it after he dies. A big day is approaching him and he is blindly unaware. A big situation will present itself before him. The intoxication of this world will come to an end upon death. A person smoking 10 cigarettes is addicted to it and cannot leave it. Similarly there is an addiction of this world which will go at death. Everyone is sleeping. At death they will be awakened.
What Allah swt wants that the heart he created inside is, only He remains in it. But unfortunately what man did is, he did not make a place for Allah in his heart, and instead occupied it with wealth, land, gold, silver, car, desires, house, business, bank-balance within. Allah sees that I created the heart and I was to be in it, but unfortunately it is occupied with other things. So Allah decided to put us through the trials of a disease called “Corona”. The most worldly oriented man has been reset by this trial and removed the dunya whether he liked it or not. Shopping Malls are empty today. How empty was it before? It had become all about desires. Today it is down to necessities. He goes to the mall, does his required job and returns home. If at all he needs to go somewhere he finishes his job quickly and returns. Through this he has removed the dunya from within the hearts of people. As the lockdown is ending, although he is beginning to resume activities slowly, but I have seen it with my own eyes, how they have come down to necessities only. The addictions and cells of desires developed have been removed. Allah alone can do everything without anything. Even now though, it is not Allah that occupies their hearts. Allah always wants man to remove this dunya from his heart. One is this. In the heart only Allah must remain. Imaan must remain. Imaaan, Yaqeen, Sabr, Taqwa, Tawakkul, these are the beautiful qualities that one should have inside him, these are the blessed qualities one should have within him, and these are the qualities Allah likes most. This is the Point no.1 in the heart chart, the central point we can see mentioned in the chart. Noor-e-Imaan, respect of the commands of Allah, kindness, humbleness, generosity, service to others, respecting others, Imaan, Yaqeen, Sabr, Taqwa, Tawakkul, correct knowledge, ability to make dua, repent, ask forgiveness, cry near Allah. This is what must remain in the heart. These are all things related to Allah. There is no place for Point No. 2 in the heart. Pride, Ego, Arrogance, Desires, Bad Habits, Food, Addictions, Haraam, this is what the world has today. In this state if death comes, how will we meet our Lord? What will be his state if he is taken.Before death, one must purify the heart of these vices. Have a life of necessities only.
Ever since the invention of the touch phone which Steve Jobs popularised, the world has become about touch. Everyone is spending 14-15 hours with the touch-phones. A big portion of our lives has become about the touch phone. He had such major responsibilities, such as the work of dawah, ibadah, being focused to present sufferings, business, family, health, children, akerath, relatives, fulfilling rights of others; instead he is busy in touch phones, and hence Allah has put us through the test of touch that he will touch no one. He cannot touch now. The trial of touch is on him. He cannot touch anyone. The other day I saw, people don’t even want to sit on a sofa. They are preferring to stand than sitting down so they don’t touch the sofa. He is using his elbows to turn the switches on for the light or fan. He is not using his fingers. Everyone's faces are covered. People criticised the Hijab of Islam. Now everyone’s faces are covered, bodies are fully covered in kits, why did this happen?
The body should have been only touched by the Sunnah of Prophet ﷺ , his manners and etiquette and characteristics. The Quran and Sunnah should have touched only. The Quran sunnah did not touch, instead desires touched, pleasures touched, clothes, watch, everything has touched, if something that did not touch us is the lives of Prophet ﷺ did not touch us, the lives of Sahaba did not touch us, lives of Ahyl-e-bayt, lives of Pious men did not touch us, simplicity did not touch us, and people even fell ill. We have been touched and lack Imaan in our hearts. This is what I wanted to convey. This is still this dunya. Upon death there is a big circumstance coming before us at death. Make repentance and beg for forgiveness and make our life better. Every step must be taken calculatively. If a mistake is committed in a single step – I have a popular saying, “make no mistake in even a single step”. We still have time to beg for repentance, handover our lives to a Pious man so that our life can improve. Our website darulqulub.com inshaAllah will help you regain control of your life. This will help you remain steadfast with the Quran and Sunnah, a strength will be given which will help you remain steadfast, unfortunately we don’t have that strength today. We lack the weapon which gives us the strength to stop the evil. If you need to stop an evil there is a powerful thing. I often say that there are animals inside man – Pig, Snake, Scorpion, Crocodile, Tiger, Dogs which is why he shouts and barks so much, wants to tear countries apart, such fights happen as a result, such destructions happen, these are animals inside man. These are characteristics of Crocodile and Tiger present inside us. There is a strength needed which will help us remove these animals from within us. This strength is the strength of Imaan, the strength of knowledge (ilm), strength of performing good deeds (amaal), strength of spirituality, this is needed to remove these evils, else these evils will drag us towards Hell. Every Prophet spoke about this, that there is a life approaching us after this Dunya, be aware and prepare yourself before the hour strikes, there is a big day approaching us, prepare for Akherath, prepare for death, make it a life about necessities, fulfill your necessities and move on, even the biggest of people have left this dunya, many people tried to acquire much in this world, the ones who made Taj Mahal left, the one who made Red Fort left, Humayun Tomb left, no one will stay but this is such a big deception, Allah has made this dunya a place of deception, we don’t understand this, so please understand this well in advance.
May Allah bless us with the correct understanding.
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May Allah help us put this to practice more than merely speaking about it. May it reflect in our lives. Ameen.
JazakAllah Khayr