Calm before the Storm-Letter from Corona Virus

I don’t think I need
to introduce myself. The whole world is talking about me, in lock down because
of me, and in perpetual stress because of me. Unlike most of you, I don’t have
time to waste, so I’ll get straight to the point and share with you things
about myself which the media will not cover.

I do not
differentiate between people; young or old, sick or healthy, practicing or
otherwise. Don’t accuse me of harshness. I’m simply following the orders of the
Supreme Lord who released me.

I’m the one who has
busied tyrannical governments from furthering their oppression of their Muslim
minorities. I am the one who has humbled the pharaohs of the 21st century and
snapped the spine of arrogance in every one of them. I am the one who closed the
venues of alcohol, fornication, gambling, smoke and terrified every user of
interest. I am the one who harasses the disbeliever behind closed doors as he
now questions everything he ever stood for. I am the one who struck fear into
the heart of every sinner and cornered him into regret. I am the reminder that
moral decay cannot go without retribution. I am proud of this, I don’t apologize
for it, and shame on the hard hearts of humanity for needing me as their
reminder.

Yes, you are right;

I am also the one who
closed the doors of the Mosques. This is my only sorrow, but it is the wish of
my Lord and He is Most Wise. Perhaps you will now realize the luxuries of
praying in congregation and sitting in the companionship of angels that you’d
previously taken for granted. Why did you need me to realize this?

Your entire lives
have come to a grinding halt because of me; a weak, microscopic and silent
creature of Allaah.
What then if He was to send my brothers upon you, by
flipping your countries over like He did with the people of Loot? Or rained
fire over you as He did with the people of Shu’aib? Or instructed the earth to
swallow you as He did with Qaaroon?

I did not cause this.
My Lord said you did.

“So each We seized
for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and
among them were those who were seized by the blast, and among them were those
whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allaah would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging
themselves.” Al-Qur’aan, 29:40

Don’t be afraid of me
but of the One who sent me.

Don’t busy yourself
thinking about how to avoid me, but how to draw closer to the One who sent me.

I, and the rest of
creation, are at His mercy, dominated by His power, helpless without His aid.
My forelock is in Hands, His wish is my command, and I prostrate to Him. Don’t
allow your heart to obsess over me or anything else. Glorify Allah and think
well of Him.

I know myself better
than you do, so I will say it how it is;

corona-virus

Many of you will die
because of me. Those who pass away upon goodness will meet goodness with Allaah
and can hope for the station of martyrdom. But those of you who die having
neglected Ieeman, lived without vision and delayed repentance, you will soon
come to realize that death was in fact the least of your problems.

I don’t know for how
much longer my Lord wants me to be around, but one thing is for sure; I may be
the calm which follows the storm, and if and when that does arrive, what I’m
doing to you today will seem like bliss

I raise my voice out
of mercy to you, and so I ask one last time:

Will you repent?

Will you live with
purpose and goals?

Will you promise to
follow up every sin with a heartfelt apology?