POLITICS
THE MUSLIM UMMAH’S DISCOURSE ON COVID (The Politics of COVID) Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash,
By: Ayesha Nasir, Toronto Ontario
F
ive weeks ago, I asked friends a simple question: How are you convincing Abdullah ibn Umar reported: I saw the Mesthe elders in your family back home senger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon
to not go pray at the mosque? A friend
him, circling the Ka’bah and saying, “How
shared how it was “the hardest thing.” It
pure you are and how pure is your fragrance!
took her a week to convince her father not to How great you are and how great is your sanctity! By the one in whose hand is the soul go and pray at home, she wrote. Another friend’s father refused to listen to her and
of Muhammad, the sanctity of the believer is
prayed every prayer at the mosque.
greater to Allah than your sanctity, in his wealth, his life, and to assume nothing of him
I get that a pandemic causes some among us but good.” (Sunan Ibn Mājah) to clutch more tightly to our faith. But in This Hadith teaches us that the images of the both ease and hardship, it is that
same faith that we must seek guidance from: 14
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