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In today's lecture, I just wanted to shed some light about some of the past epidemics

that have occurred in the Muslim Ummah and how some of our classical ulema and also our

pre-modern ulema have dealt with some of these issues so that we can wish Allah to

benefit from their experiences and see what we can do in our times.

Now of course we all know that epidemics and pandemics are things that have been a part of

human nature, human history since the beginning of time.

An epidemic by the way is the spread, the rapid spread of a disease to a large number of people

in a short period of time. If it spreads to much of the globe it is called a pandemic.

And of course historically there have been many many epidemics many dozens if not hundreds

of epidemics and where an epidemic becomes a pandemic is a bit of a gray area but I think we

should all be aware that there were a number of pandemics in our history. The two most famous ones

I would say in the last thousand years everybody should know. Of course the most famous and without

a doubt the most devastating plague that ever inflicted human history or at least as you say

recorded human history is of course the infamous black death or the black plague that lasted from

1331 up until roughly you know 1350 1360 or so. And in this time frame it is estimated that at

least 200 million people worldwide were killed over the course of the 13th and maybe even up until

the 14th century. It is said that Europe took two centuries to recover to its normal

and to get back the population that had been lost. And that's of course the infamous black death

plague it also affected Muslim lands as we're going to see. And a number of Ulema

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