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Omar Suleiman

The Plague that Killed Sahaba and the Coronavirus

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Sh. Omar Suleiman delivers a special lecture on the Amwas plague, the first plague to claim the lives of hundreds of Sahaba and thousands of people in the 7th century. He highlights lessons we can learn from that time period and offers some spiritual gems that are relevant ... Read more

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

So today if you didn't get the memo

0:07.0

We're going to be doing a special class

0:09.0

insh a chihuahua,

0:10.0

so we're going to break a bit from the first as in the great first and we're going to talk about the first plague and I want to talk about why

0:18.9

With this whole thing going on with coronavirus and the way that it's being highlighted and the way that it's spreading around the world

0:26.8

There is some hama this this tendency to think of the worst case scenario especially with everything else that's happening out in the world today.

0:34.0

There are also a lot of discussions that become hyper focused on the fich, on the jurisprudence of what to do with

0:41.6

coronavirus. So now you start to see some of the Fattwa

0:45.0

councils issuing Fattawa about the extent to which we should or shouldn't

0:49.6

gather or congregate. You know, Allah al-Ilam if there comes a time where, you know, Sala Tuljumaa, we're not supposed to come to Sala Tuljamaa.

0:58.0

What point do we stop shaking hands with one another? And it's very hard to change habits. But at what point do we start actually changing some of our habits that we feel very passionate about as they pertain to Iba Dats, as they pertain to acts of worship.

1:13.7

There's also the question of Umra and Hajj, right?

1:17.3

You know, s'bhan'a, imagine the people that went out for Hajj.

1:21.0

This is something that's practically unknown at this time.

1:24.6

Imagine if we went, those people that went out for Omra and were turned back, right?

1:31.9

They would have never thought, especially if you live in the United States and you know

1:36.0

it's so easy to make it to Omra or to make it towards Hajj, you would never think in a hundred years,

1:44.0

so that's my kid. So, Hage and Omera.

1:49.0

Typically those that go to Omera or that go to Hj never have to think about any type of difficulty, right?

1:55.2

It's, you know, you pay the amount of money, you make it out to Omra, you make it out to Hajj, and you come back, right?

2:00.3

And this is probably the first time in recent memory that something like this would happen where you'd have people that paid for you know and we always talk about the VIP packages and you know you get these five star experiences and so on Allah people that studied the hotels they would stay in for umra

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