By. Bint e Mushtaq
As like the rest of the world we too are witnessing a tragedy of the pandemic at a global scale. What we are bearing in mind is staying away of worship places like Mosques out of fear getting infected with the deadly virus. Words may never describe the agony every Muslim feels or during the current situation across the globe. For those believers it’s very tough time and a sign or a message for every single Muslim to wake up. It’s a time to reconnect to Allah without any doubt. We have to understand deeply that Allah is the only who has the total control of everything.
Due to the outbreak of this deadly disease the whole world is suffering and trying their best to keep away from this. Commerce and industry has almost come to an end when we thought we had reached to our pinnacles, when we thought we had come to the top of civilization in an instance. And all this has been replaced with death being close to us. Allah sends upon us a plague, a disease that no one could have predicted and no one knows how to get cured from this disease. Allah doesn’t change the status of people unless and until they have changed themselves and when Allah wills to inflict a punishment upon people no one can come between Allah punishment. Allah says in Holy Quran: verily Allah will not change the condition of a people until they strive to change themselves [13:11]
If we understand the principal the concept that everything is in the hands of Allah. Nothing happens; nothing moves nothing takes place without the will of Allah. So definitely Allah is testing the Ummah by this disease. So if we start thinking about this it’s a wakeup call which we have to understand that things do happen on that large scale. Allah definitely is sending a message to humanity that something is wrong.
There is lot of mistakes wrong deeds which we had done in our past and still we are doing the same and continuously are going against the teaching of Quran and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Allah does not send upon people plagues and diseases unless there is something that they have collectively done. Allah says in Holy Quran: Evil (sins and disobedience of Allah) has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of men earned (by oppression and evil deeds, etc), that Allah may make them taste a part of that which they have done in order that they may return (by repenting to Allah and begging His pardon). [30:41] Perhaps “they may returns” means Allah shows the Evil consequences of some of the acts of men in this world before the punishment of the hereafter so that they understand the reality, feel the error of their conjectures and turn to the righteous belief, which the Prophets of Allah have been presenting before mankind since the earliest times, and besides adopting which there is no way of ordering human conduct on sound foundations. Hasan al Basri, the famous tabi’i he commended on this verse and he said “because of their own sins Allah sends fitnah and fasad down because what they had done, Allah sends down plagues and calamities.” It is never too late to return to Allah. Allah can destroy everyone. This disease which is a punishment can be destruction for everyone and this is what every Muslim believes that this disease is a punishment from Allah. Anything under this is a test from Allah and the outbreak of this disease is a wakeup call from Allah.
Allah blessed us with so many things for so many years and now it’s time to beg Allah for these bounties again. It’s time to sit down and ponder only a portion of our sins. Allah is giving another chance to whole ummah before the day of resurrection, if we want this problem to be solved then all of us should collectively turn to Allah. We need Allah and Allah doesn’t need us.
(The Author is a student of English Litrature at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Srinagar)