Coronavirus, Quarantine, Prophetic Sayings and Ibn
Sina
Dr. Mozammel Haque
I
have used these four words – Coronavirus (Covid-19), Quarantine, Prophetic
Sayings and Ibn Sina – in the title because they are very much inter-related
and well-connected. In the following paragraphs I would like to demonstrate how
they are inter-related and well-connected.
Coronavirus
(Covid-19)
Since
Coronavirus first being recorded on 31 December in 2019 in the city of Wuhan,
China, the Covid-19 coronavirus has spread around the world, irrespective of
east and west, south and north of the glove;
and similarly irrespective of gender, colour, race and faith and it has
been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The
virus, which causes the respiratory infection Covid-19, was first detected in
the city of Wuhan, China on 31 December, 2019.
The
Coronavirus Covid-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the
world and 2 international conveyances. The list of countries and their
continental regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme,
according to (worldometers.info)
The
World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak a pandemic and it has
spread to more than 190 countries around the world. (FT). The Coronovirus death
toll exceeded the 200,000 threshold, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins
University – reported by Al-Jazeera on 25 April, 2020.
Europe
became the focal point of coronavirus in early March when the disease spread
rapidly across the continent. Italy soon became the country hard-hit by
Covid-19 after China. (FT)
In
the United Kingdom now more than 20,000
people have now died with coronavirus in the UK hospitals, the
Department of Health has announced. The latest figures showed a total of 20,319
deaths in the UK, up by 813 on the previous day. At the Downing Street daily
briefings: The Home Secretary Priti Patel said today, 25th of April,
2020: “As the deaths caused by this terrible virus pass another tragic and
terrible milestones, the entire nation is grieving.” (Reported by BBC 25 April
2020).
The invisible terrible virus has hit certain countries
including Italy, Spain and the US, with particular cruelty. United Kingdom is
the fifth country in the list of hardest hit.
Lockdown - Quarantine
Lockdown began from 25th of March
at midnight. And now extended till 3rd May.
*It's
exactly 40 days from 25th March to 3rd may...*
I found the following information in the World Wide Web and
I am going to share this with my readers:
“QUARANTINE The
Latin root of the word "quarantine" is "forty". So
what does the holy books say about 40? The flood lasted 40
days. 40 years Moses fled Egypt. 40 days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai
to receive the Commandments. Exodus lasted 40 years. Jesus
fasted for 40 days. Lent is 40 days. 40 days for a woman to rest
after giving birth. A group of theologians thinks the number 40 represents
"change”. It is the time of preparing a person, or people, to make a
fundamental change. Something will happen after these 40 days.”
“Remember we are in the year 2020, and 20 + 20 = 40,” he
also mentioned this.
Coronavirus*Hadith
of Prophet Muhammad
(Peace
be upon him) on **COVID-19*
It
is well known and many members of different faith communities believe that God
has created this universe and made mankind His Vicegerent on earth and other
things of this earth are made subservient to the serve of the human beings. God
has also given knowledge of this world to His Messengers. I found following
Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in the World Wide Web on
coronavirus. I am just sharing this information to my readers.
Coronavirus*Hadith of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ**COVID-19*
1) *QUARANTINE* is a Prophetic ﷺ advice.*
_“Run away from the leper (the one with contagious ailment)
as you would run away from a lion.”_(Bukhari Volume 7, Book 71, Number 608)
2) *SOCIAL DISTANCING* is a Prophetic ﷺ command.
_"Those with contagious diseases should be kept away
from those who are healthy."_Bukhari (6771) and Muslim (2221)
3) *TRAVEL BAN* is a Prophetic ﷺ teaching.
_"Do not enter a land where the plague (contagious
ailment) has broken out; don’t leave from where it has broken out”_Bukhaari
(5739) and Muslim (2219)
4) *DON'T HARM OTHERS*, if you have symptoms.
_The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Do not cause harm or return harm.”_Sunan Ibn Mājah (2340)
5) *STAYING HOME* is a Prophetic teaching
_“Those who stay at home to protect themselves and others
are under the protection of Allah.”_Musnad Ahmed, Saheeh
6) If necessary, *HOUSE IS A MASJID*.
_The Prophet ﷺ said: “The
entire earth has been made a Masjid, except graveyards and washrooms.”_Tirmidhi
(al-Salaah, 291)
7) *THERE'S CURE*; patience is the virtue
_The Prophet ﷺ said
“There is no disease that Allah sent without sending for it a cure.“_Bukhari
(Volume 7, Book 71, Number 582)
8) Let’s *TREAT; ALLAH WILL CURE*
_The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Every disease has a cure. If a cure is applied to the disease, it is relieved
by the permission of Allah.”_Muslim (2204)
9) *FACE MASKING* is a Prophetic ﷺ teaching
_Prophet (ﷺ) while sneezing, would cover his face with
his hand or with his garment,”_Abu Dawud; Tirmidhi (Book 43, Hadith 2969),
Sahih
10) *WASH HANDS* every time you enter home.
_The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Cleanliness is half of faith.”_Muslim (223)
11) *HOME QUARANTINE* is a Prophetic advice
_“The plague (contagion) patient who remains in his home
with patience and expectation of reward, knowing that nothing will befall him
other than Allah’s decree will attain the reward or a martyr“_Musnad Aḥmad,
Sahih also Bukhaari (2829) and Muslim (1914)
Quarantine – Ibn Sina
The
origin of this word was from Ibn Sina (Avicenne) and mentioned in his book when
he explained that when there is an epidemic a 40 days isolation is necessary to
overcome that virus... this number in French is quarante and in Italian almost
the same and the word quarantine the venetians made it out when there was an
epidemic.... because Venice was the part of contemporary Italy in contact with
almost all the world because of its trade with the East.
It
was the Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina (980-1037) who first came up with
the idea of quarantine to prevent spread of diseases. He suspected that some
diseases were spread by microorganisms; to prevent human-to-human
contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He
called this method al-Arbaiiniya (“the forty”) Traders from Venice heard of his
successful method and took this knowledge back to contemporary Italy. They
called it “quarantena” (“the Forty” in Italian). This is where the word
“quarantine” comes from.
Hence
the origin of the methods currently being used in much of the world to fight
pandemics have their origins in the Islamic world during the Golden Age of
Islamic civilizations. Allah says in the Qur’an: “Who saves one human life, it
is as if he has saved all mankind.” (5:32).
Even today Ibn Sina’s method saves thousands,
perhaps millions of lives, Mashallah. That is another legacy filled with
barakah.
But
who is Ibn Sina?
“Ibn
Sina’s full name was Abu Ali Al-Hussein
Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina. In the West he is also known as Avicenna. He was a
Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians,
astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of
early modern medicine.
“Ibn
Sina’s gigantic medical encyclopedia al-Qanun fi al Tibb (The Canon of
Medicine), comprising of upwards of a million words, has been used as the
standard medical textbook up until the seventeenth century and is still widely
considered a valuable resource for the study of medicine.” (original posted by
Bastiaan W and also by Reyyaz Salley)
Most
of all, he was a Hafizul Qur’an. During the Golden Age of Islamic civilization,
most of the scholars were trained and basic grounding on Qur’an and Hadiths from
which they derived all their inspiration and knowledge.
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