1- All the events of the universe, the bad of them and the good, are Allah's messengers to the intellect; revelation has given reminders through them, and they lead to the knowledge of Allah and to faith in Him. So the rule:
“Soon We shall show them Our signs in the horizons and in their own souls until it becomes clear to them that He is the Real” (Qurʾan 41:53), continues as long as there is still breath in people, and as long as there is still rubble on the intellect.
2- Among events are those that are the direct making of human beings, and among them are those whose outward appearance is otherwise. After the cause of the financial collapse in 2008 was the black swan theory, through human action, here is the green swan theory sounding the alarm bells of a new global financial crisis, due to climate change, which, as it appears to us, is beyond human will.
3- All of that is outwardly beyond human will, but it is connected with it in one way or another, namely the connection of cause with effect; yet the connection between them lies outside the calculations of materialist logic, in what they understand of the laws of logic, philosophy and physics.
In Allah's reckoning they are of various kinds, gathered together in His words, Exalted is He:
“and We will test you with good and ill by way of test, and to Us you will be brought back.” (Qurʾan 21:35).
4- The event of the coronavirus, whether its phase is folded away quickly or extends, we must consider one of Allah's messengers to minds, that perhaps they may return to their Maker and shake off the impurities of atheism, and that man may give up his haughtiness toward the All-knowing Creator on account of the material progress he has attained.
5- Let us turn right and left and read what corona, the hidden being, has brought about: we will see the weakness of bodies and the weakness of the measures against it. This poor human being, shrinking before the greatness of the Lord, forgets that he is (one whose ailments are hidden.. a gnat pains him, a choking kills him, and sweat makes him stink).
6- Because of corona, sums of money that are hard to count have been drained; all sectors have been affected in one way or another. China alone has done without buying 20% of oil, equivalent to the needs of Britain and Italy combined; add to that the halt of air traffic and the decline of transport, which means that the oil market is in a frightening decline.
7- And turn your gaze to the industrial sectors and the total or partial shutdown of factories, which has inflicted unprecedented losses on major companies in the field of device manufacturing; then cast your eye on the expenditure of states on prevention and treatment, and the stoppage of some businesses and administrations that follows from it: we are facing the draining of a torrent of billions.
8- If matter is the fundamental value, and if atheism is the refuge of minds, then here is matter being scattered by the winds, and here is this helplessness closing in on human beings, even if that is temporary, because it is a message; and it is the nature of messages to be concise, and the nature of messengers to communicate in clear terms. So seek Allah, the Powerful and All-strong.
9- Before this scene, and before every cosmic scene that passes before us, let us remember the words of Allah the Exalted: “O people! Listen to a parable that is being drawn: Indeed those whom you invoke besides Allah will never create [even] a fly even if they all rallied to do so! And if a fly should take away something from them, they can not recover that from it. Feeble is the seeker and the sought!” (Qurʾan 22:73).
10- And if faith in Allah is our greatest value, then events only increase us in faith and in turning back to Allah: through patience, so that He may pay us in full the rewards of the patient, and through knowledge, so that we may overcome the challenges and He may pay us in full the rewards of the virtuous. Do you not see that whoever does not take Allah into his reckoning, even if he achieves things, is in a wilderness where events toss him about?
11- By Allah's leave and with His grace, man will succeed in reaching a cure for corona; but some will come out of the experience with losses on every side, and some will come out winning on every side: winning in the awakening of the intellect, in the increase of faith, in overcoming the trial, and in the raising of ranks..
12- Moreover, events, in their social messages, are no less than in their messages about faith in general: Is cooperation present or absent? Where do we stand on fairness and sympathy? Has the current of panic and greed swept us along or not?.. All of that is under the eye of Allah the Exalted.
Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi
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