The world is effectively in lockdown. A large scale Gāza strip. Movements restricted, loved ones out of reach, mass deaths.
This is surely a time for reflection & repentence.
Shaykh al-Islām [Ibn Taymiyah] (may Allāh have mercy on him) said: A calamity that makes you turn to Allāh is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allāh.”
Survival
A question for those on "lockdown" cut off from family & friends and/or stuck with hyper kids - how to spend this time?
Share your: beneficial words/reminders, how are you spending your time?, reading suggestions, ideas on keeping kids busy , making effective/innovative use of limited food supplies and so on.
Support The Oppressed
Remember, your oppressed brothers & sisters around the world - Gāza, Kashmīr, Rohingya, Idlib (Syria). Our prisoners in the US, UK, Europe & elsewhere.
Some ways you may support them include donating to reputable charities : https://uwt.org/ ('Ummah Welfare Trust')
It was narrated that Ka‘b ibn ‘Ajrah (may Allāh be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allāh (blessings and peace of Allāh be upon him) said to me: “Charity extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire.” Al-Tirmidhi (614); classed as sahīh by al-Albānī in Sunan al-Tirmidhi.
May Allāh , 'azza wa jal, forgive us & save us from His Wrath & Anger.
We live in times when starvation has been killing about 8,000 children every day; the medicine is available - it is called food. This pandemic has been invisible for centuries because it does not affect the rich. If you are lucky enough to earn more than ten thousand dollars per year; then you are in the top twenty percent of the richest people on Earth
It will help us understand the important things in life; if we spend time reflecting on the similarities of two very different pandemics; starvation and Covid 19.
If we are to search for God; then it helps to be thankful in bad times, as well as good times.
In the spirit of praying for justice for all people,
Eric
"The US’ Northern Command has sent teams of essential staff deep underground to wait out the Covid-19 pandemic. On the surface, more than a million grunts won’t be quite as cocooned.
Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy heads up the US’ Northern Command, as well as the North American Aerospace Defense Command – a joint US/Canadian operation that monitors the skies over North America for missile and airborne threats. Earlier this week, O’Shaughnessy told reporters via Facebook that some of his watch teams would be moved from their usual command center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to a number of hardened underground bunkers.
One of these facilities is the Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex, a warren of tunnels buried under 2,000 feet (610m) of granite, and sealed behind blast doors designed to withstand a 30 megaton nuclear explosion.
“Our dedicated professionals of the NORAD and NORTHCOM command and control watch have left their homes, said goodbye to their families, and are isolated from everyone to ensure they can stand the watch each and every day to defend our homeland,” O’Shaughnessy said. He also said that personnel sent underground will share the bunker with other members of the military, but he is “not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there.”
Another team has been sent to an undisclosed location, O’Shaughnessy added.
Installations like Cheyenne Mountain are integral to the US government’s plan to survive a doomsday scenario. In the event of an existential threat to the US, a nuclear attack for instance, the president and his officials, as well as a contingent of political, military and civilian leaders would be immediately evacuated to four secure facilities to run the country from deep underground. These facilities are Cheyenne Mountain, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House, Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania, and Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Pennsylvania.
While the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has not triggered a mass exodus from Washington, it has prompted military leaders to take steps to ensure they remain combat ready. After admitting that the US military’s readiness could be affected by the pandemic, Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated on Thursday that the Pentagon would stop publishing precise details of Covid-19 cases within its ranks, to avoid revealing weaknesses to America’s adversaries.
As some of O’Shaughnessy’s forces head for the hills to wait out the pandemic in hermetic isolation, millions more on the surface will not have the same luxury. Army engineers have already been deployed to New York to scout locations for field hospitals, as the Empire State accounts for more than a third of the country’s 112,000 cases of the illness...."
We live in times when starvation has been killing about 8,000 children every day; the medicine is available - it is called food. This pandemic has been invisible for centuries because it does not affect the rich. If you are lucky enough to earn more than ten thousand dollars per year; then you are in the top twenty percent of the richest people on Earth
It will help us understand the important things in life; if we spend time reflecting on the similarities of two very different pandemics; starvation and Covid 19.
If we are to search for God; then it helps to be thankful in bad times, as well as good times.
In the spirit of praying for justice for all people, Eric
That's right. Alhamdulillah for everything
Jabir bin 'Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:'A slave (of Allah) shall not believe until he believes in Al-Qadar, its good and its bad, such that he knows that what struck him would not have missed him, and that what missed him would not have struck him." (Jami 'at Tirmidhi)
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