Allah (swt) tests all of His servants in different ways to show them, on the Day of Resurrection, how they dealt with His trials. So, remember His servant and Messenger Ayub (as). He was tested with his wealth, his family and then his health. Ayub (as) was afflicted by an illness that didn't spare a single part of his body, except of his heart, and he was tested until no…

Throughout their long history, humans have suffered from many epidemics that have affected their physical health and affected their development, numerically or practically, due to the rapid spread of these epidemics and their emergence in a sudden and rapid manner, so that people are not given an opportunity to resist and repel them only after thousands of lives are claimed, and after they have caused turmoil and disturbance in societies.

The Messenger (saw) said, «مَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُصِبْ مِنْهُ»“If Allah intends good for someone then He afflicts him with trials.” (Bukhari) It can often be difficult to see loss, misfortune and affliction, including the current pandemic, in anything but a negative light. The pain we feel from the death of a loved one, the suffering we go through upon ill-health, the anxiety we experience during financial hardship

A few days ago, I was listening to a podcast about death, from an Islamic perspective. The women giving the podcast had recently lost her mother due to the corona-virus. In this intense moment of grief, this sister managed to make it an act of obedience, by not only putting her full trust in Allah (swt) with everything she faced but also turning her sorrow into a beneficial lesson for…