Is there ijma'a on contagious disease?
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Noor ul Shaam
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The hadith is found everywhere including in bukhari.. they can make rants trying to tell us what Islam says about contagion yet don't know about the hadith or where it is found.
Are you qualified to debate this issue?
Are you qualified to debate this issue?
abu Hasan
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a hadith present in bukhari does not mean there is ijmaa on its interpretation.
only idiots or those ignorant of hadith sciences will make such claims.
that is immaterial. these are mere ruses to get away. you should not be using the internet as well to communicate. who knows you might be an israeli spy who is trying to cause fitna. what is the proof that you are not an israeli spy? unless you post your passport details here you are unqualified to comment.
someone anonymous himself taunting another person for being anonymous!
SaadSohail
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No answers to the questions raised so why not raise an adhominem attack?
By the way are you qualified?
Let's assume you are qualified, if you have the guts address or refute what you find is contradictory to Islamic theology.
You will never be able to prove it, by the way, is my contention!
And it is a valid contention based on your previous posts.
"First the side-track was backbiting and now qualification."
Next it would be i don't know nuggets or dunkin donuts?
You are only good at making claims NOT substantiating them.
You have made broad claims about science (without a qualification), then you implied that people here are adopting the scientist's understanding (Unislamic) of "contagion" which according to them is "material causes have intrinsic properties or power"and not only that, you appeared to have somewhat suggested that people here are adopting something which runs contradictory to islam.
I also asked how would you prove whether the hadith in question is rejecting a correlating event or correlation when in fact it is affirming it:
"...O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What about the camels which, when on the sand (desert) look like deers, but when a mangy camel mixes with them they all get infected with mange?" On that Allah s Apostle said, "Then who conveyed the (mange) disease to the first (mangy) camel?"
Bold is there for emphasis.
I see you as someone which Imam Al Ghazali Talked about in Tahafut Al Falsifah:
"Greater harm is done to religion by an immethodical helper than by an enemy whose actions, however, hostile are yet regular. For, as the proverb goes, "a wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend"."
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FaqirHaider
اللَه المقدر والعالم شؤون لا تكثر لهمك ما قدر يكون
Jazakllah Khair my dear brothers for the advice, and verily deen is counselling. I believe my action are inline with what I have come to accept from the proofs brought about from both sides, and it is not in rejection of observable correlation (of pathogens and the like), but its in acknowledgement of them but disassociating them as a "direct cause of death or disease." I would suggest everyone to set out some free time and listen to all 4 videos, and then evaluate my actions. By Allah, It is not from Kibr that I did what I did, I was only doing what I felt was inline with the sunnah, I would not have even put on the gloves had they not insisted (by the way one of the family members was a doctor and he did confess that he had to sign more death certificates in a week than he would normally do in months.)
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SaadSohail
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My concern is with this statement of yours:
"I believe my actions are inline with what I have come to accept from the proofs brought about from both sides, and it is not in rejection of observable correlation (of pathogens and the like), but its in acknowledgement of them but disassociating them as a "direct cause of death or disease."
What do you mean by "direct cause" of death or disease? Allah is the creator of Life and death. Causes and effects are mere correlation according to muslims.
So fire is a correlating factor of burning and heat whereas Allah created the fire and heat.
Keeping the context mentioned above in mind:
1)Poison is not the true reason why a person dies just like pathogens are not the reason why a person becomes infected and dies.
2)Likewise knife is not the reason why a person dies.
*)Poison does not create death.
*Knife doesnot create death.
*Likewise pathogens donot create death or disease.
1)If a person kills a brother with a knife or a poison. Is he accountible according to you?
If your answer is Yes.
2) What makes you think that you will not be held responsible for not practising ihtiat after coming to know that "contact" with infected individuals is indeed discovered to be a correlating factor in such a disease just like cyanide and knife is a correlating factor of death or harm?
What if after killing, the murderer gives the reason "knife or cynaide is NOT the true reason why a person dies". Does saying that evade personal responsibility? Of course not.
This issue is extremely straight forward. I have no idea why people are getting confused about it. To be honest a muslim would avoid putting a hand in fire despite knowing Allah is the creator of heat and burning. Yet when it comes to a certain disease, some of the muslims become totally irresponsible, giving excuse of predestination for their own personal lapses. One would not put ones hand in fire saying it was predestined and that he is not at fault. He would indeed hold himself responsible. But when it comes to a disease, they would go against all the observed precautionary correlating factors saying its not their fault but it was in their fate. It is true that it was in their fate but you cannot evade your personal responsibility.
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FaqirHaider
اللَه المقدر والعالم شؤون لا تكثر لهمك ما قدر يكون
First brother I would suggest you watch ALL 4 videos in their fullest, so you have full scope of the hadith and opinions related to this matter.
Apriori the direct cause of everything is Allah, this is not what I am discussing, we are discussing observation, action and results.
I was having trouble finding an appropriate translation for sabab aadi ,
Sabab Aadi - all the example you gave are of Sabab aadi, and an exception to this rule would be clasified as "Khariq al Aaada"
poison one it goes inside , "immediately/directly results in damage", a knife "immediately/directly cuts," fire "immediatley/directly burns"
the concern isn't about conclusion, its about the immediate effect.
It is Qiyas Batil to compare a pathogen to Cyanide , Mercury, or any other "poisonous" material, because the poison will have DIRECT/Immediate effect to a normal individual.
Sabab Wahmi - this is speculative prone to chance no certainty. "disease is not the immediate/direct result of a person getting the disease," this is my argument. The pathogen must enter the body , and then the "immune system must respond to it "according to the WILL of ALLAH," and this "COVID" is not a case where ALLAH has will a 90-99% fatality."
This is unlike Sabab Aadi, ALLAH has placed in things its effect (which he is sustaining as he wills) and for us this is the empirical, typical, and common, 99% effect which I call "nidham al kawn", like one's skin will burn when placed in fire ,this is at a certainty of 90-99%. This is unlike disease and "pathogens," which does not, reach the same level of certainty, If you wish to argue that we will be opening another pandora's box, but as a remainder EBOLA virus "fatality" was around 50%.
As for the argument of responsibility and practicing itihat, the hadith is clearعن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Who gave the first one "the DISEASE!", not the pathogen, not the virus, not the bacteria, the DISEASE!, because this is a matter of "chance" for a lack of better words, [a matter of QADR], why should I be "directly" responsible, Do you think If I wasn't there the disease that was destined to get to him would not get there?
In admits this corona lockdown, a brother of a friend passed away at a young age (28), in the middle of the night in in his sleep (death reason unknown , not COVID).
Surah Nisa [4:78]
أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِكَ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ فَمَالِ هَٰؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمِ لَا يَكَادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ حَدِيثًا
Death will come to you wherever you may be, even if you were in strong fortresses; if some good reaches them they say, "This is from Allah"; and if any misfortune reaches them, they say, "This is from you"; say, "Everything is from Allah"; what is wrong with these people, that they do not seem to understand anything?
أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِكَ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ فَمَالِ هَٰؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمِ لَا يَكَادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ حَدِيثًا
Death will come to you wherever you may be, even if you were in strong fortresses; if some good reaches them they say, "This is from Allah"; and if any misfortune reaches them, they say, "This is from you"; say, "Everything is from Allah"; what is wrong with these people, that they do not seem to understand anything?
Yes I am an agent(means), in the process of the victim or blessing and this isn't by my choice so How Can I be responsible. Had a person been responsible for the "death resulting from a disease or "contagion," then I am sure our Sharia would have mentioned it in the chapter of Diya (blood money), but I am not aware of any Nass Qat'i that talks about this.
Most people don't want to make this distinction and have difficulty accepting it, that is why the Hadith states to run from the leaper as one runs from the lion , or don't enter or exit a plague stricken land exists, to safeguard people from their improper deduction.
And even these hadith are considered "mansukh" by some (read below).
Lets look at the action of the Companions and Salaf, were they do be considered "responsible," , by their negligence of itihat in light of Prophet action, if someone would "by chance," get infected and "acquire the disease " from them?
from Umdat al Qari Sharh Bukhari - Badruddin Al Ayni رحمة الله عليه
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SaadSohail
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@FaqirHaider aider
You have completely missed the point of this conversation.
Sabab Aadi - all the example you gave are of Aadi Sabab, and an exception to this rule would be clasified as "Khariq al Aaada"
poison one it goes inside , "immediately/directly results in damage", a knife "immediately/directly cuts," fire "immediatley/directly burns"
That is not the point of the argument. But since you have brought this up it is better to address this here. I am going to give you some more better examples:
1) Let's say there is an element which is correlated with 3% mortality rate and in some countries around 8% of mortality. That means 3 individuals out of 100 or 8 out of every 100.
Are you going to ingest this element, knowing that you might die from this, under the excuse that this is the Qadr of Allah and that you are not responsible?
2)Parking a car at a specific junction on the road has been correlated with severe accidents, disabilities and deaths (about 5%) each month. Its all over the news and they have requested people to not park their cars on that site.
Are you still going to park the car, saying whatever happens is the Qadr of Allah and if somebody ends up dying or disabled, you are not responsible, right?
Despite knowing the fact that there have been accidents each month on that very specific junction.
"the concern isn't about conclusion, its about the immediate effect".
This is where you are getting it wrong. The concern is indeed about the conclusion and NOT necessarily the immediate effect. Though it could be otherwise as well.
Let's change the scenario and let's say a person tries to kill another person with a "slow" poison. And this person dies in a year.
Will the killer not be responsible? There were no immediate effects infact the person remained symptomless through out the year.
Another Example:
A diabetic person despite being warned by doctors to adopt a healthy lifestyle complete ignores his advise and doesnot mend his ways. The doctor has even told him that if he doesnot mend his ways, studies have shown that diabetics without proper glycemic control end up getting their toes amputated (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
The man doesnot mend his ways.3 months later, his toes are amputated. 6 months later his whole foot is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
Is this person not responsible for not taking care of his health? Or is he going to present excuse of predestination for his inability of not taking the right actions? Despite being told by the doctor that he should mend his ways? Or is he going to say that this was Sabab Wahmi, so he is not responsible?
It is Qiyas Batil to compare a pathogen to Cyanide , Mercury, or any other "poisonous" material, because the poison will have DIRECT/Immediate effect to a normal individual.
Again totally missing the point.
We are not comparing COVID19 with cyanide poison in the sense that both have immediate outcomes. Not at all. We are not even saying that COVID19 and cynaide are correlated with equal or same mortality rates.
The underlying assumption in your whole argument is: If a person can do certain activity even if doing a certain activity is correlated with let's say 5% mortality rate, and he knows this, and even then he proceeds to do activity, then there is no issue of responsibility here.
And i will address that:
Sabab Wahmi - this is speculative prone to chance no certainty. "disease is not the immediate/direct result of a person getting the disease," this is my argument.
First there is no chance. Everything happens by the will of Allah.
Adi is when a certain thing has been observed to be the same way that it becomes a norm. That doesn't mean it is rationally necessary in the mind's eye. It could still be otherwise according to the intellect.
Wahmi is when a certain thing has been observed to be in a number of ways which doesn't make it predictable.
Corona is not at all wahmi. Your argument rejects observed reality. A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Where is the Wahm/speculation in all this?
"COVID" is not a case where ALLAH has will a 90-99% fatality."
What does fatality got to do with personal responsibility?
How does that make it Wahmi Sabab?
Putting a hand in fire, is NOT CORRELATED with 99% fatality rates. Does that make it a wahmi sabab as well? Does that mean it is fine to put ones hand in fire?
But you would say burning of fire is sabab Adi.
So let's give a better example:
Let's say a poison is correlated with 1% mortality rate. Does that make it OK to drink it or give others to drink? What if you or the man turns up dead. Are you not responsible?
Are you denying the fact that people infected with COVID19 are dying? If no. Then where is the wahm? Covid19 patients dying is an observed reality.
Where is the wahm in claiming that COVID19 is correlated with 5% mortality rates?
And in some countries to even 8%. When did we ever claim that COVID19 is correlated with 100% mortality?
BUT IT IS AN OBSERVED FACT that 2-8 people out of 100 Are dying FROM CORONA.
It is an observed fact that hospital beds are totally FULL.
Secondly has shariah mandated us to ONLY adopt the means when there is a correlation of 99%-100% fatality?
Has shariah forbidden or prevented us to adopt the means i.e not doing a certain action which is correlated with 5% mortality?
What about adopting means with the intention of protecting others or preventing harm?
What about adopting the means with the intention that hospital burden could be reduced?
The total number of deaths from COVID19 sits around 423K.
You should not ignore the fact that 20% of cases of COVID19 require hospitalization. With limited number of hospital beds and ventilators, it is a need of the hour to adopt precautionary measures so that the burden on the hospital remains minimal.
No hospital is solely built for corona patients. It includes other patients (trauma and other disease, preganancies and what not). All the hospitals today in Pakistan are full and those patients are literally begging doctors to admit them and doctors cannot do anything.
First the number of deaths occuring from Corona is a fact. The respected Shaykh in the video is even denying that there have been deaths. I am truly depressed to hear that.
So lets state the facts again:
1) Corona is a reality.
2) People of all kinds of ages are dying.
3) the mortality rates varies from <1-8% and to even 13% in elderly.
4) Putting on masks, washing hands and avoiding gatherings is correlated with minimal to no development of infection.
5)People with history of travel were correlated with Increased risk and development of infection.
6)An elderly age group is correlated with severe forms of ARDS and increased mortality around 13%.
7) People with history of contact with COVID19 patients were correlated with development of symptoms a week to 2 weeks later in the vast majority of cases.
Do you know what a Wahm is, in this case?
This is the ACTUAL WAHM:
The example below is just to make you understand. Donot take that as a truth:
1) It has been observed that people staying in contact with COVID19 get infected.
2) It has been observed that people who didnot stay in contact with COVID 19 get infected as well.
IN THIS IMAGINARY CASE: You are not to be held responsible at ALL for not adopting the precautionary means. Because regardless of adopting precautionary means, the infection rates have been observed to remain equal in both (1) and (2). That is the actual SABAB WAHMI.
You also need to remember that 5% although on its own seems like a small number it isn't. 5% of the whole country's population makes it a very very large number indeed.
Your responsibility comes by knowing the fact that it has been observed that people establishing contact with COVID19 develop symptoms a week or two later and they become the correlating factor for the development of disease in non-infected individuals. You are responsible because you know that not adopting precautionary measures is correlated with increased incidence of development of COVID19 infections.
Who gave the first one "the DISEASE!", not the pathogen, not the virus, not the bacteria, the DISEASE!, because this is a matter of "chance" for a lack of better words, [a matter of QADR], why should I be "directly" responsible,
The question of "who" gave the disease is clear. It is Allah. I fail to see how the fact "that it is Allah who gives the disease" evades you of the responsibility.
This is indeed a strange inference of yours.
Allah has also decreed the actions of the slaves and it is He who created the actions of the slaves. So would you then ask the question "Why should I be responsible?"
What you are failing at is to understand the context of the ahadith:
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال: «إذا سمعتم بالطاعون بأرض فلا تدخلوها، وإذا وقع بأرض وأنتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها»
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Do you think If I wasn't there the disease that was destined to get to him would not get there?
Ofcourse not. Everything would happen according to the decree of Allah. However, Allah has held us accountible for the voluntary choices we make in our life time. You keep forgetting the latter part.
You have completely missed the point of this conversation.
Sabab Aadi - all the example you gave are of Aadi Sabab, and an exception to this rule would be clasified as "Khariq al Aaada"
poison one it goes inside , "immediately/directly results in damage", a knife "immediately/directly cuts," fire "immediatley/directly burns"
That is not the point of the argument. But since you have brought this up it is better to address this here. I am going to give you some more better examples:
1) Let's say there is an element which is correlated with 3% mortality rate and in some countries around 8% of mortality. That means 3 individuals out of 100 or 8 out of every 100.
Are you going to ingest this element, knowing that you might die from this, under the excuse that this is the Qadr of Allah and that you are not responsible?
2)Parking a car at a specific junction on the road has been correlated with severe accidents, disabilities and deaths (about 5%) each month. Its all over the news and they have requested people to not park their cars on that site.
Are you still going to park the car, saying whatever happens is the Qadr of Allah and if somebody ends up dying or disabled, you are not responsible, right?
Despite knowing the fact that there have been accidents each month on that very specific junction.
"the concern isn't about conclusion, its about the immediate effect".
This is where you are getting it wrong. The concern is indeed about the conclusion and NOT necessarily the immediate effect. Though it could be otherwise as well.
Let's change the scenario and let's say a person tries to kill another person with a "slow" poison. And this person dies in a year.
Will the killer not be responsible? There were no immediate effects infact the person remained symptomless through out the year.
Another Example:
A diabetic person despite being warned by doctors to adopt a healthy lifestyle complete ignores his advise and doesnot mend his ways. The doctor has even told him that if he doesnot mend his ways, studies have shown that diabetics without proper glycemic control end up getting their toes amputated (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
The man doesnot mend his ways.3 months later, his toes are amputated. 6 months later his whole foot is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
Is this person not responsible for not taking care of his health? Or is he going to present excuse of predestination for his inability of not taking the right actions? Despite being told by the doctor that he should mend his ways? Or is he going to say that this was Sabab Wahmi, so he is not responsible?
It is Qiyas Batil to compare a pathogen to Cyanide , Mercury, or any other "poisonous" material, because the poison will have DIRECT/Immediate effect to a normal individual.
Again totally missing the point.
We are not comparing COVID19 with cyanide poison in the sense that both have immediate outcomes. Not at all. We are not even saying that COVID19 and cynaide are correlated with equal or same mortality rates.
The underlying assumption in your whole argument is: If a person can do certain activity even if doing a certain activity is correlated with let's say 5% mortality rate, and he knows this, and even then he proceeds to do activity, then there is no issue of responsibility here.
And i will address that:
Sabab Wahmi - this is speculative prone to chance no certainty. "disease is not the immediate/direct result of a person getting the disease," this is my argument.
First there is no chance. Everything happens by the will of Allah.
Adi is when a certain thing has been observed to be the same way that it becomes a norm. That doesn't mean it is rationally necessary in the mind's eye. It could still be otherwise according to the intellect.
Wahmi is when a certain thing has been observed to be in a number of ways which doesn't make it predictable.
Corona is not at all wahmi. Your argument rejects observed reality. A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Where is the Wahm/speculation in all this?
"COVID" is not a case where ALLAH has will a 90-99% fatality."
What does fatality got to do with personal responsibility?
How does that make it Wahmi Sabab?
Putting a hand in fire, is NOT CORRELATED with 99% fatality rates. Does that make it a wahmi sabab as well? Does that mean it is fine to put ones hand in fire?
But you would say burning of fire is sabab Adi.
So let's give a better example:
Let's say a poison is correlated with 1% mortality rate. Does that make it OK to drink it or give others to drink? What if you or the man turns up dead. Are you not responsible?
Are you denying the fact that people infected with COVID19 are dying? If no. Then where is the wahm? Covid19 patients dying is an observed reality.
Where is the wahm in claiming that COVID19 is correlated with 5% mortality rates?
And in some countries to even 8%. When did we ever claim that COVID19 is correlated with 100% mortality?
BUT IT IS AN OBSERVED FACT that 2-8 people out of 100 Are dying FROM CORONA.
It is an observed fact that hospital beds are totally FULL.
Secondly has shariah mandated us to ONLY adopt the means when there is a correlation of 99%-100% fatality?
Has shariah forbidden or prevented us to adopt the means i.e not doing a certain action which is correlated with 5% mortality?
What about adopting means with the intention of protecting others or preventing harm?
What about adopting the means with the intention that hospital burden could be reduced?
The total number of deaths from COVID19 sits around 423K.
You should not ignore the fact that 20% of cases of COVID19 require hospitalization. With limited number of hospital beds and ventilators, it is a need of the hour to adopt precautionary measures so that the burden on the hospital remains minimal.
No hospital is solely built for corona patients. It includes other patients (trauma and other disease, preganancies and what not). All the hospitals today in Pakistan are full and those patients are literally begging doctors to admit them and doctors cannot do anything.
First the number of deaths occuring from Corona is a fact. The respected Shaykh in the video is even denying that there have been deaths. I am truly depressed to hear that.
So lets state the facts again:
1) Corona is a reality.
2) People of all kinds of ages are dying.
3) the mortality rates varies from <1-8% and to even 13% in elderly.
4) Putting on masks, washing hands and avoiding gatherings is correlated with minimal to no development of infection.
5)People with history of travel were correlated with Increased risk and development of infection.
6)An elderly age group is correlated with severe forms of ARDS and increased mortality around 13%.
7) People with history of contact with COVID19 patients were correlated with development of symptoms a week to 2 weeks later in the vast majority of cases.
Do you know what a Wahm is, in this case?
This is the ACTUAL WAHM:
The example below is just to make you understand. Donot take that as a truth:
1) It has been observed that people staying in contact with COVID19 get infected.
2) It has been observed that people who didnot stay in contact with COVID 19 get infected as well.
IN THIS IMAGINARY CASE: You are not to be held responsible at ALL for not adopting the precautionary means. Because regardless of adopting precautionary means, the infection rates have been observed to remain equal in both (1) and (2). That is the actual SABAB WAHMI.
You also need to remember that 5% although on its own seems like a small number it isn't. 5% of the whole country's population makes it a very very large number indeed.
Your responsibility comes by knowing the fact that it has been observed that people establishing contact with COVID19 develop symptoms a week or two later and they become the correlating factor for the development of disease in non-infected individuals. You are responsible because you know that not adopting precautionary measures is correlated with increased incidence of development of COVID19 infections.
Who gave the first one "the DISEASE!", not the pathogen, not the virus, not the bacteria, the DISEASE!, because this is a matter of "chance" for a lack of better words, [a matter of QADR], why should I be "directly" responsible,
The question of "who" gave the disease is clear. It is Allah. I fail to see how the fact "that it is Allah who gives the disease" evades you of the responsibility.
This is indeed a strange inference of yours.
Allah has also decreed the actions of the slaves and it is He who created the actions of the slaves. So would you then ask the question "Why should I be responsible?"
What you are failing at is to understand the context of the ahadith:
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال: «إذا سمعتم بالطاعون بأرض فلا تدخلوها، وإذا وقع بأرض وأنتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها»
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Do you think If I wasn't there the disease that was destined to get to him would not get there?
Ofcourse not. Everything would happen according to the decree of Allah. However, Allah has held us accountible for the voluntary choices we make in our life time. You keep forgetting the latter part.
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SaadSohail
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@This is unlike Sabab Aadi, ALLAH has placed in things its effect (which he is sustaining as he wills) and for us this is the empirical, typical, and common, 99% effect which I call "nidham al kawn", like one's skin will burn when placed in fire ,this is at a certainty of 90-99%. This is unlike disease and "pathogens," which does not, reach the same level of certainty, If you wish to argue that we will be opening another pandora's box, but as a remainder EBOLA virus "fatality" was around 50%.
Please read the previous reply as well. (See post #48).
On one hand you state that burning of the skin with fire is Wajib Adatan (This is something I agree with).
Yet at the same time you shift the conversation of disease and pathogens to fatality rate.
And that is a false analogy fallacy:
The burning of skin of the hand with fire is correlated with negligible mortality or fatality rates. That doesn't mean one should put his hand in fire.
A better question would have been:
Is there a correlation of non-infected people becoming symptomatic following contact with infected COVID19 patients?
Can those people remaining asymptomatic (carriers) become a correlating factor for the development of symptoms in non-covid 19 individuals upon exposure/contact?
Secondly:
It has been observed that people who establish contact with COVID19 patients:
1) Develop symptoms:
*Majority develop milder symptoms and recover. However they become correlating factors (until they recover) for the development of symptoms in non-infected individuals following contact/exposure.
*Some develop moderate symptoms and require hospitalization and even ventilation and then recover.
*Some develop severe symptoms and require ventilation.
2) remain asymptomatic but become correlating factors for the development of COVID19 symptoms in other non-infected individuals.
A person knowing all this, states: "I am going to go and meet people, without taking precautionary measures, and i am not responsible for anything because it is the Qadr of Allah" then his example is similar to the one:
Who places a small dirty nail on the road, (knowing fully what MIGHT happen. It is not nomically necessary) and a 1000 people walked through that road that day and only one of them did get injured. Develped tetanus and later died.
And the person gives the excuse "the fatality rate of dying from being struck with a nail is negligible. It is not Sabab Adi. Therefore That doesn't make me responsible. It is the Qadr of Allah and i am not responsible."
May Allah guide us all.
Please read the previous reply as well. (See post #48).
On one hand you state that burning of the skin with fire is Wajib Adatan (This is something I agree with).
Yet at the same time you shift the conversation of disease and pathogens to fatality rate.
And that is a false analogy fallacy:
The burning of skin of the hand with fire is correlated with negligible mortality or fatality rates. That doesn't mean one should put his hand in fire.
A better question would have been:
Is there a correlation of non-infected people becoming symptomatic following contact with infected COVID19 patients?
Can those people remaining asymptomatic (carriers) become a correlating factor for the development of symptoms in non-covid 19 individuals upon exposure/contact?
Secondly:
It has been observed that people who establish contact with COVID19 patients:
1) Develop symptoms:
*Majority develop milder symptoms and recover. However they become correlating factors (until they recover) for the development of symptoms in non-infected individuals following contact/exposure.
*Some develop moderate symptoms and require hospitalization and even ventilation and then recover.
*Some develop severe symptoms and require ventilation.
2) remain asymptomatic but become correlating factors for the development of COVID19 symptoms in other non-infected individuals.
A person knowing all this, states: "I am going to go and meet people, without taking precautionary measures, and i am not responsible for anything because it is the Qadr of Allah" then his example is similar to the one:
Who places a small dirty nail on the road, (knowing fully what MIGHT happen. It is not nomically necessary) and a 1000 people walked through that road that day and only one of them did get injured. Develped tetanus and later died.
And the person gives the excuse "the fatality rate of dying from being struck with a nail is negligible. It is not Sabab Adi. Therefore That doesn't make me responsible. It is the Qadr of Allah and i am not responsible."
May Allah guide us all.
SaadSohail
Well-Known Member
Let's talk about some statistics as well:
Source: https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/ppt/2020/V4_Combined_Critically-Ill-Adults-COCA-4.2.2020.pdf
1) Hospitalizations occur in non-elderly patients as well.
2)Case fatality rate is higher in elderly individuals.
What can we learn out of this?
Source :
http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//tables/Hospitals Dispensaries and Beds by Province (Progressive) 1.pdf
Source:
https://nation.com.pk/28-May-2018/population-put-at-207-7-million
1) Hospital beds in Punjab Pakistan: 60191
2) Population of Punjab Province is: 109.99 million (52.96 percent)
Since 3rd world countries lack efficient systems of reporting. One can see percentage of hospitalizations by age group.
18-49years=30%
50-64 years=30%
65+ years=40%
If one only takes 1% of 109 million population of punjab which requires hospitalization that equals= 1 million. Compare this number with the number of hospital beds available.
In the most-affected provinces, 9,276 beds, 3,500 oxygen beds and 387 ventilators were available in Punjab
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2242020/1-smart-lockdown-imposed-1292-areas-across-pakistan-ncoc-told/
In case one wonders why one requires hospital admisson:
People infected with Corona either develop cytokine storm or mild-moderate to severe Pneumonia acute respiratory distress syndrome which is associated with decreased oxygen saturation of blood (less than 93%). What that in layman terms means decreased supply of oxygen (that we breath) to the organs. Requires hospitalization to deliver oxygen.
This doesnot only affect the elderly. It affects the non-elderly as well. However, non-elderly with timely treatment have been seen to recover better.
There is already shortage of beds in the hospitals in Punjab. Most of them are full. Private hospitals are charging PKR 10,00000 (6000 $) for 7 days of advance payment which no middle man could afford. That means one cannot give treatment to the non-elderly as well as the elderly. What that means is you cannot give oxygen (supplemental) to those who are literally gasping for air.
In a nutshell what that means is there is greater likelihood of people dying from lack of supportive therapy (in this case oxygen) when they most need it. And this is what is happening right now in Pakistan. So the mortality rates could be far higher than expected due to immense pressure on the hospitals.
So of all this is not a theory or Wahm now. None of this is being said to instill fear in you.
It is a Reality that we have to face at the end of the day.
And it is high time, that we realize the responsibility of our actions not just evade them under the excuse of Predestination.
The question is would you give your elderly parents something to eat which is found or observed to be correlated with increased difficulty in breathing, hospitalization with mortality rate of 5-20%.
Among patients whose ICU outcome is known, 66.3% of the 1053 patients who required mechanical ventilated died, compared with 19.4% of the 444 patients who required basic respiratory support.
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928605
For the study, first author Safiya Richardson, MD, MPH, and colleagues in the Northwell COVID-19 Research Consortium analyzed electronic medical records of 5700 patients hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020.
Overall, 1151 (20.2%) of the 5700 patients required mechanical ventilation. As of April 4, 831 (72.2%) of these patients remained in the hospital, 38 (3.3%) were discharged, and 282 (24.5%) had died.
When the authors restricted their analysis to the 2634 patients whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known at the end of the study, 373 (14.2%) had been treated in the intensive care unit, 320 (12.2%) received invasive mechanical ventilation, 81 (3.2%) received dialysis, and 553 (21%) died.
As seen in other COVID-19 studies, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death. Of patients receiving mechanical ventilation and whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known, 88.1% died. When stratified by age, the mortality rates for ventilated patients were 76.4% for those aged 18 to 65 years and 97.2% for those older than 65 years.
Among those who did not require mechanical ventilation and whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known, 19.8% of patients aged 18 to 65 years died, as did 26.6% of those older than 65 years. No patient under 18 years died during the study period.
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/929375
Source: https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/ppt/2020/V4_Combined_Critically-Ill-Adults-COCA-4.2.2020.pdf
1) Hospitalizations occur in non-elderly patients as well.
2)Case fatality rate is higher in elderly individuals.
What can we learn out of this?
Source :
http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//tables/Hospitals Dispensaries and Beds by Province (Progressive) 1.pdf
Source:
https://nation.com.pk/28-May-2018/population-put-at-207-7-million
1) Hospital beds in Punjab Pakistan: 60191
2) Population of Punjab Province is: 109.99 million (52.96 percent)
Since 3rd world countries lack efficient systems of reporting. One can see percentage of hospitalizations by age group.
18-49years=30%
50-64 years=30%
65+ years=40%
If one only takes 1% of 109 million population of punjab which requires hospitalization that equals= 1 million. Compare this number with the number of hospital beds available.
In the most-affected provinces, 9,276 beds, 3,500 oxygen beds and 387 ventilators were available in Punjab
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2242020/1-smart-lockdown-imposed-1292-areas-across-pakistan-ncoc-told/
In case one wonders why one requires hospital admisson:
People infected with Corona either develop cytokine storm or mild-moderate to severe Pneumonia acute respiratory distress syndrome which is associated with decreased oxygen saturation of blood (less than 93%). What that in layman terms means decreased supply of oxygen (that we breath) to the organs. Requires hospitalization to deliver oxygen.
This doesnot only affect the elderly. It affects the non-elderly as well. However, non-elderly with timely treatment have been seen to recover better.
There is already shortage of beds in the hospitals in Punjab. Most of them are full. Private hospitals are charging PKR 10,00000 (6000 $) for 7 days of advance payment which no middle man could afford. That means one cannot give treatment to the non-elderly as well as the elderly. What that means is you cannot give oxygen (supplemental) to those who are literally gasping for air.
In a nutshell what that means is there is greater likelihood of people dying from lack of supportive therapy (in this case oxygen) when they most need it. And this is what is happening right now in Pakistan. So the mortality rates could be far higher than expected due to immense pressure on the hospitals.
So of all this is not a theory or Wahm now. None of this is being said to instill fear in you.
It is a Reality that we have to face at the end of the day.
And it is high time, that we realize the responsibility of our actions not just evade them under the excuse of Predestination.
The question is would you give your elderly parents something to eat which is found or observed to be correlated with increased difficulty in breathing, hospitalization with mortality rate of 5-20%.
Among patients whose ICU outcome is known, 66.3% of the 1053 patients who required mechanical ventilated died, compared with 19.4% of the 444 patients who required basic respiratory support.
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928605
For the study, first author Safiya Richardson, MD, MPH, and colleagues in the Northwell COVID-19 Research Consortium analyzed electronic medical records of 5700 patients hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020.
Overall, 1151 (20.2%) of the 5700 patients required mechanical ventilation. As of April 4, 831 (72.2%) of these patients remained in the hospital, 38 (3.3%) were discharged, and 282 (24.5%) had died.
When the authors restricted their analysis to the 2634 patients whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known at the end of the study, 373 (14.2%) had been treated in the intensive care unit, 320 (12.2%) received invasive mechanical ventilation, 81 (3.2%) received dialysis, and 553 (21%) died.
As seen in other COVID-19 studies, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death. Of patients receiving mechanical ventilation and whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known, 88.1% died. When stratified by age, the mortality rates for ventilated patients were 76.4% for those aged 18 to 65 years and 97.2% for those older than 65 years.
Among those who did not require mechanical ventilation and whose outcomes (discharge or death) were known, 19.8% of patients aged 18 to 65 years died, as did 26.6% of those older than 65 years. No patient under 18 years died during the study period.
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/929375
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Noor ul Shaam
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Are you qualified to debate whether there is contagion In Islam or not with Haroon?
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Abdullah Ahmed
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@Noor ul Shaam
brother, give it a rest. nobody is coming out to debate you or your friend. this is an internet forum where people post things. if you wish to post your perspective, go ahead. but stop inviting people elsewhere, its getting annoying. its as if youre afraid to post your perspective fearing that only a controlled debate setting will allow you to prove your point. besides, people have other things going on as well in their lives.
brother, give it a rest. nobody is coming out to debate you or your friend. this is an internet forum where people post things. if you wish to post your perspective, go ahead. but stop inviting people elsewhere, its getting annoying. its as if youre afraid to post your perspective fearing that only a controlled debate setting will allow you to prove your point. besides, people have other things going on as well in their lives.
FaqirHaider
اللَه المقدر والعالم شؤون لا تكثر لهمك ما قدر يكون
Firstly Dear brother please do watch all 4 aforementioned videos , I can't stress this enough.
Also the issue is not about correlation, the Jahiliyya Arabs could even see this, and the whole Adwa Hadith is in response to the "behavior, understanding, and reaction to this "correlation,"
You're whole argument is to construe denial of responsibility around contagion as something of a Jabari stance, and this is a stretch.
1) Let's say there is an element which is correlated with 3% mortality rate and in some countries around 8% of mortality. That means 3 individuals out of 100 or 8 out of every 100.
Are you going to ingest this element, knowing that you might die from this, under the excuse that this is the Qadr of Allah and that you are not responsible?
Yes I might digest it because its a low 3% change of dying, there is no harm in someone doing something at 3%. Qadr is never an excuse its the justification, this is exactly the type of argument that is founded upon conjecture and happenstance, now my opinion will change when you I am asked to consume or be expose to that element on a daily bases over time, clearly the more I drink the percentage of element it will increase, increasing the percentage making it from a low to high probability. (Again this is concrete , quantifiable amount which can be measured)
In the USA you have 1 in 103 chance of dying form a car accident, 1 in 114 chance of dying from falling, it is exactly this "excuse of Qadr" I am using to justify my driving and my walking (up and down the stairs).
Its easy to skew statistics in any favor, in my state that actual statistic is 1/16,000 with fatality being 1/7000 which results in around 500 deaths yearly. Additionally its a statistical fact we have more accidents on highways than back roads, yet you find most people still opt for the most efficient and fastest way to and fro work.
2)Parking a car at a specific junction on the road has been correlated with (about 5%) each month. Its all over the news and they have requested people to not park their cars on that site.
Interested, lets change this a bit , in Jahiliyya the Arabs noticed 5% increase in severe accidents, disabilities and deaths (Bala') in Safar each year, and they would not travel or go out of their houses much in this month. Now the Prophet rejected this "precautionary" efforts and told them to understand everything is from Allah, will you then still demand precautionary measures. But one can argue that they did not empirically observe a 5% increases in aforementioned and they were merely basing it on Wahm, We know for centuries in the past, people would die just going to hajj, lets say it was 5% every year, would we tell people not to travel by caravan to Hajj because we observed 5 people dying.
Remember all the percentages you are quoting or stating are well below 50%, I will agree the stats reach well beyond 50% because now there is confidence "to a degree," and something that can now argue in favor of sabab aadi but still no where as near.
"the concern isn't about conclusion, its about the immediate effect".
This is where you are getting it wrong. The concern is indeed about the conclusion and NOT necessarily the immediate effect. Though it could be otherwise as well.
If this is indeed the case, why would the Sharia tell sick and healthy people to stay where they are and not leave (out of fear of death or catching the "Plague" (plague is actually more deadly than covid), that is the "most probable" result given how we know pandemics work.
We are told to stay and face "death," and one who flees from it , is compared to a renegade from war. If ihtiyat was the "maqsad", and if you are to apply "maqasid of sharia," it falls short to the hadith and command to stay put and face destiny.
So given the city of "Adwabad" is infected by a deadly disease, the sharia commands the infected 30% and healthy 70% to stay put, by virtue of confinement in given city the infected infect the healthy now , 70% infected 30 healthy, 20% infected die. What this means is that every infected person is "somewhat" responsible, for infecting others, he is "responsible," for the death that results from infection/correlation.
On what basis will you lift responsibility form them, knowing what you know about how pathogens and contagion works. Will the excuse Qadr of Allah be applied here but not in other places?
قُلْ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَنَا
“Say: ‘Nothing shall ever happen to us except what Allâh has ordained for us…’” (9:51).
Let's change the scenario and let's say a person tries to kill another person with a "slow" poison. And this person dies in a year.
Will the killer not be responsible? There were no immediate effects infact the person remained symptomless through out the year.
The nature of poison being asymptomatic is different, it is not a fair comparison, a disease is considered asymptomatic when a person is hosting a pathogen and his immune system has rejected it, or it is in a "silent" stage to reappear (according to divine decree). There is little evidence to support that Asymptomatic people can spread a virus, all studies conclude is conjecture. Given my breakdown on how "disease is formed," there is stark difference between the symptomlessness of a poisonous element and a disease.
On the other hand Mercury or lead poisoning will seem asymptomatic but it takes immediate effect when it enters the digestive system and is absorbed into the blood stream , slowly amplifying over time, finally surfacing at a later date.
As for disease, the pathogen enters the body, it does not immediate take effect and will only "replicate" or be rejected according to what is destined. Given this point Lead or Mercury poisoning stills falls under Sabab Aadi, and pathogen under Wahmi. That means responsibility for poisons "yes," contagion "no."
The Killer will be responsible, but its improper analogy to compare him to a symptomatic or symptomatic patient.
Are we to hold all recipients of COVID, responsible for all the covid positive nurses and doctors, who "acquired" COVID, when they interacted with their patients, should we from accusing them and blaming them for being responsible for passing the pathogens by enrolling into the hospital and contaminating the air. If you do hold them responsible, what does that entail, if that entails no action, incurs no sin, then why are we even debating this issue, it makes no difference.
Another Example:
A diabetic person despite being warned by doctors to adopt a healthy lifestyle complete ignores his advise and doesnot mend his ways. The doctor has even told him that if he doesnot mend his ways, studies have shown that diabetics without proper glycemic control end up getting their toes amputated (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
The man doesnot mend his ways.3 months later, his toes are amputated. 6 months later his whole foot is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
here this is again false analogy, diabetes is a non-communicable disease, it is inherited genetically or caused via poor nutrition and health habits therefore it cannot be applied in comparison to communicable diseases. Non-communicable fall under sabab aadi, the statistic here are directly correlated and take immediate effect.
Is this person not responsible for not taking care of his health? Or is he going to present excuse of predestination for his inability of not taking the right actions? Despite being told by the doctor that he should mend his ways? Or is he going to say that this was Sabab Wahmi, so he is not responsible?
As stated he is responsible for his actions here, since he in in control of this affair (by will of Allah) وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
this ayah doesn't apply to Jihad and Contagion, if one is to say the prohibition of going into infected land is because its a means to cause self harm, then what off the people in the infected land? Is it not inflicting harm staying in their? so this verse has no baring on any thing in relation to jihad nor plagues. But for the rest scenarios it can apply, although the verse actually speaks about metaphorically ruining oneself from not giving charity.
It is Qiyas Batil to compare a pathogen to Cyanide , Mercury, or any other "poisonous" material, because the poison will have DIRECT/Immediate effect to a normal individual.
Again totally missing the point.
We are not comparing COVID19 with cyanide poison in the sense that both have immediate outcomes. Not at all. We are not even saying that COVID19 and cynaide are correlated with equal or same mortality rates.
The underlying assumption in your whole argument is: If a person can do certain activity even if doing a certain activity is correlated with let's say 5% mortality rate, and he knows this, and even then he proceeds to the activity, then there is no issue of responsibility here.
Yes that is what I am assuming, death from COVID due to ME is sabab wahmi, not aadi, there are too many unknown factors with regards to mortality or infection of a person one cannot say It was Indeed my "covid pathogens" that got him sick, just because I was the last person they met. Until it becomes Aadi, which it will never, I don't see how I am responsible "in a blameworthy sense," I do acknowledge responsibility of being an agent, but that devoid of any blame.
FaqirHaider
اللَه المقدر والعالم شؤون لا تكثر لهمك ما قدر يكون
I am,however, trying to drill another point home. And i will address that below.
Sabab Wahmi - this is speculative prone to chance no certainty. "disease is not the immediate/direct result of a person getting the disease," this is my argument.
First there is no chance. Everything happens by the will of Allah.
No need to repeat what is understood of chance, Alhamdulillah we are all know everything is from the will of Allah, . Ironically your arguments prior were basically built on this point, simply replace "statistical probability" with the word chance ,you have a 10% chance of getting your toes amputated, 8% foot amputation, 13% chance of heart attack.
Adi is when a certain thing has been observed to be the same way that it becomes a norm. That doesn't mean it is rationally necessary in the mind's eye. It could still be otherwise according to the intellect.
Yes it's intellectually possible for fire to have cooling effect, but clearly we don't see that everyday.
Wahmi is when a certain thing has been observed to be in a number of ways which doesn't make it predictable.
Yes as is the case with this virus and many in the past, its easy to apply confirmation bias, but look at WHO statistics and reports from day 1 until now you will see change in approach and stats (unpredictable).
Corona is not at all wahmi. Your argument rejects observed reality. A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Unless my own reality is a delusion, I just mentioned how I came in contact with COVID-19 victims and I have not developed nor acquired COVID-19, and to make the claim this is an observed "reality," is undermining the vast majority of people who don't have COVID-19 after interacting. I don't want to beat a dead bush, but being asymptomatic in my book does not mean one has the "contracted the disease," one only contracts the disease after the 7-14 period from point of "infection." If you are going to say this is rejected on the basis of anecdotal evidence, then this is just being picky, because this is in rejection of the Billions of "non" carriers who have interacted with diseased and carrier patient.
COVID is not so different from any other Influenza, millions of people yearly are infected , and 300k died last year due to it, currently COVID as taken 450k death , lets not forget how many of these death were reported "COVID death," but the victims clearly had a plethora of other health complications, and the death was not solely due to COVID. The only reason why there is fear is because there is no vaccine.
TO highlight infected or carries and disregard the rest who came in contact is a case of myopia. I acknowledge the 8M recorded cases, 3.4M(active), 4.5M(closed). Of the Closed 4.5M (90%) recovered 10% died, of the Active 3.4M (98% are Mild, 2% severe). And the more cases are recorded the bigger the recovery - death gap becomes, showing its not as "dangerous as thought to be." I also acknowledge the 6.8 Billion who have not been affected by this disease, if you argue they are asymptomatic, how many? lets say 8M more, this is is only in my favor, because the more "infected," the bigger the death gap becomes, showing that the "fatality or mortality rate is prone to deflation."
Where is the Wahm/speculation in all this?
"COVID" is not a case where ALLAH has will a 90-99% fatality."
How does that make it Wahmi Sabab?
Are you denying the fact that people infected with COVID19 are dying? If no. Then where is the wahm? Covid19 patients dying is an observed reality.
It is absolutely wahmi is in acquisition, the whole "asymptomatic" concept is based on wahm, you are "speculating" people are asymptomatic, as to explain the "rapid growth and spread of the disease." There is no way to statistically put a number on this category of people, but people are taking it for granted and assuming that this is the case "in guise" of itihat.
I don't deny correlation "once" the disease has manifest and the person is indeed infected with corona, What I am denying is the assumption and treatment of infected COVID-19 patients as contagion at the rate of 90-99% , and more so the anxiety of it being treated like it will be 90-99% fatality.
Lets not hide the elephant in the room, the only reason people are closing doors is because they thing they will die or at the least get infected, and actual statistics go from one ear out the other, especially when the mantra of "Covid patients are dying and hospitals are full!" is recited in response to an objector. Are you denying the observed reality of the rest of 6.8 Billion inhabitants of earth are not afflicted with corona?
We have never treated other viruses and influenza like this one, when this has only currently 10-20% higher deaths, does that justify a complete radical shift in protocol than the seasonal flu?
Where is the wahm in claiming that COVID19 is correlated with 5% mortality rates?
And in some countries to even 8%. When did we ever claim that COVID19 is correlated with 100% mortality?
BUT IT IS AN OBSERVED FACT that 2-8 people out of 100 Are dying FROM CORONA.
- the argument was never on the mortality rate. No one is claiming 100%, but they sure are treating it as such, and the Orwellian doublespeak around this is what irks me.
It is an observed fact that hospital beds are totally FULL.
- again this is a myopic approach, it maybe an observed fact that hospital "X" is full but I assure you other hospitals are not running in 100% max capacity.
Secondly has shariah mandated us to ONLY adopt the means when there is a correlation of 99%-100% fatality?
Of course not, take all the means, it is an option among many options. But you seems to forget Islam also says to accept Fatality (at 50-100%) by encouraging Jihad, and the Hadith of staying in afflicted land and facing death. Why eclipse these matters? It is one thing to ask for long life and health, but love of dunya should not delude us from destiny and faith.
Has shariah forbidden or prevented us to adopt the means i.e not doing a certain action which is correlated with 5% mortality?
Not necessarily, except that you are only burdening yourself with taking precaution over such a statistically low number,
What about adopting means with the intention of protecting others or preventing harm?
By all means go ahead, as long as you those prevention don't contradict or impeach on established rules and regulations of the deen.
What about adopting the means with the intention that hospital burden could be reduced?
Allah will reward you for your good intention (God willing).
The total number of deaths from COVID19 sits around 423K.
You should not ignore the fact that 20% of cases of COVID19 require hospitalization. With limited number of hospital beds and ventilators, it is a need of the hour to adopt precautionary measures so that the burden on the hospital remains minimal.
No hospital is solely built for corona patients. It includes other patients (trauma and other disease, preganancies and what not). All the hospitals today in Pakistan are full and those patients are literally begging doctors to admit them and doctors cannot do anything.
I acknowledge all of this, except the begging part as I have not seen it myself , but I take your word for it.
First the number of deaths occuring from Corona is a fact. The respected Shaykh in the video is even denying that there have been deaths. I am truly depressed to hear that.
The video is dated to the beginning of the epidemic, but he clearly does not deny death from the disease, maybe you need to finish the second video.
So lets state the facts again:
1) Corona is a reality.
2) People of all kinds of ages are dying.
3) the mortality rates varies from <1-8% and to even 13% in elderly.
4) Putting on masks, washing hands and avoiding gatherings is correlated with minimal to no development of infection.
5)People with history of travel were correlated with Increased risk and development of infection.
6)An elderly age group is correlated with severe forms of ARDS and increased mortality around 13%.
7) People with history of contact with COVID19 patients were correlated with development of symptoms a week to 2 weeks later in the vast majority of cases.
I had not stated anything against these statistics (which are prone to change , they are dynamic in nature as more records are reported)
Do you know what a Wahm is, in this case?
This is the ACTUAL WAHM:
The example below is just to make you understand. Donot take that as a truth:
1) It has been observed that people staying in contact with COVID19 get infected.
2) It has been observed that people who did not stay in contact with COVID 19 get infected as well.
This is ODD please reconcile for me points (1,4,7) from your facts list with these two points from you Actual WAHM list. If you will argue that staying in contact is different "history of contact," this would be silly to say at the least.
IN THIS IMAGINARY CASE: You are not to be held responsible at ALL for not adopting the precautionary means. Because regardless of adopting precautionary means, the infection rates have been observed to remain equal in both (1) and (2). That is the actual SABAB WAHMI.
As mentioned it does not matter if one gets infected or not, my whole argument isn't in rejection of correlation in agency in pathogenic spreading, it is in rejection of responsibility once the pathogen enters the other persons body, because I AM not responsible on what his destiny is regarding the disease , because it isn't from my own agency that I am spreading anything, Allah has already chosen and written who will be the recipient of the pathogen through me.
You also need to remember that 5% although on its own seems like a small number it isn't. 5% of the whole country's population makes it a very very large number indeed.
It is a very large number but statistically is is still small, I don' wish to undermine the value of those infected, Hasha!, but holistically speaking it is "small." Imagine living your life, where people consistently bombard you with the negative side effects or statics (<20%) about something. It is useful as a warning, but everyone has a choice and should not be enforced.
Sabab Wahmi - this is speculative prone to chance no certainty. "disease is not the immediate/direct result of a person getting the disease," this is my argument.
First there is no chance. Everything happens by the will of Allah.
No need to repeat what is understood of chance, Alhamdulillah we are all know everything is from the will of Allah, . Ironically your arguments prior were basically built on this point, simply replace "statistical probability" with the word chance ,you have a 10% chance of getting your toes amputated, 8% foot amputation, 13% chance of heart attack.
Adi is when a certain thing has been observed to be the same way that it becomes a norm. That doesn't mean it is rationally necessary in the mind's eye. It could still be otherwise according to the intellect.
Yes it's intellectually possible for fire to have cooling effect, but clearly we don't see that everyday.
Wahmi is when a certain thing has been observed to be in a number of ways which doesn't make it predictable.
Yes as is the case with this virus and many in the past, its easy to apply confirmation bias, but look at WHO statistics and reports from day 1 until now you will see change in approach and stats (unpredictable).
Corona is not at all wahmi. Your argument rejects observed reality. A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Unless my own reality is a delusion, I just mentioned how I came in contact with COVID-19 victims and I have not developed nor acquired COVID-19, and to make the claim this is an observed "reality," is undermining the vast majority of people who don't have COVID-19 after interacting. I don't want to beat a dead bush, but being asymptomatic in my book does not mean one has the "contracted the disease," one only contracts the disease after the 7-14 period from point of "infection." If you are going to say this is rejected on the basis of anecdotal evidence, then this is just being picky, because this is in rejection of the Billions of "non" carriers who have interacted with diseased and carrier patient.
COVID is not so different from any other Influenza, millions of people yearly are infected , and 300k died last year due to it, currently COVID as taken 450k death , lets not forget how many of these death were reported "COVID death," but the victims clearly had a plethora of other health complications, and the death was not solely due to COVID. The only reason why there is fear is because there is no vaccine.
TO highlight infected or carries and disregard the rest who came in contact is a case of myopia. I acknowledge the 8M recorded cases, 3.4M(active), 4.5M(closed). Of the Closed 4.5M (90%) recovered 10% died, of the Active 3.4M (98% are Mild, 2% severe). And the more cases are recorded the bigger the recovery - death gap becomes, showing its not as "dangerous as thought to be." I also acknowledge the 6.8 Billion who have not been affected by this disease, if you argue they are asymptomatic, how many? lets say 8M more, this is is only in my favor, because the more "infected," the bigger the death gap becomes, showing that the "fatality or mortality rate is prone to deflation."
Where is the Wahm/speculation in all this?
"COVID" is not a case where ALLAH has will a 90-99% fatality."
How does that make it Wahmi Sabab?
Are you denying the fact that people infected with COVID19 are dying? If no. Then where is the wahm? Covid19 patients dying is an observed reality.
It is absolutely wahmi is in acquisition, the whole "asymptomatic" concept is based on wahm, you are "speculating" people are asymptomatic, as to explain the "rapid growth and spread of the disease." There is no way to statistically put a number on this category of people, but people are taking it for granted and assuming that this is the case "in guise" of itihat.
I don't deny correlation "once" the disease has manifest and the person is indeed infected with corona, What I am denying is the assumption and treatment of infected COVID-19 patients as contagion at the rate of 90-99% , and more so the anxiety of it being treated like it will be 90-99% fatality.
Lets not hide the elephant in the room, the only reason people are closing doors is because they thing they will die or at the least get infected, and actual statistics go from one ear out the other, especially when the mantra of "Covid patients are dying and hospitals are full!" is recited in response to an objector. Are you denying the observed reality of the rest of 6.8 Billion inhabitants of earth are not afflicted with corona?
We have never treated other viruses and influenza like this one, when this has only currently 10-20% higher deaths, does that justify a complete radical shift in protocol than the seasonal flu?
Where is the wahm in claiming that COVID19 is correlated with 5% mortality rates?
And in some countries to even 8%. When did we ever claim that COVID19 is correlated with 100% mortality?
BUT IT IS AN OBSERVED FACT that 2-8 people out of 100 Are dying FROM CORONA.
- the argument was never on the mortality rate. No one is claiming 100%, but they sure are treating it as such, and the Orwellian doublespeak around this is what irks me.
It is an observed fact that hospital beds are totally FULL.
- again this is a myopic approach, it maybe an observed fact that hospital "X" is full but I assure you other hospitals are not running in 100% max capacity.
Secondly has shariah mandated us to ONLY adopt the means when there is a correlation of 99%-100% fatality?
Of course not, take all the means, it is an option among many options. But you seems to forget Islam also says to accept Fatality (at 50-100%) by encouraging Jihad, and the Hadith of staying in afflicted land and facing death. Why eclipse these matters? It is one thing to ask for long life and health, but love of dunya should not delude us from destiny and faith.
Has shariah forbidden or prevented us to adopt the means i.e not doing a certain action which is correlated with 5% mortality?
Not necessarily, except that you are only burdening yourself with taking precaution over such a statistically low number,
What about adopting means with the intention of protecting others or preventing harm?
By all means go ahead, as long as you those prevention don't contradict or impeach on established rules and regulations of the deen.
What about adopting the means with the intention that hospital burden could be reduced?
Allah will reward you for your good intention (God willing).
The total number of deaths from COVID19 sits around 423K.
You should not ignore the fact that 20% of cases of COVID19 require hospitalization. With limited number of hospital beds and ventilators, it is a need of the hour to adopt precautionary measures so that the burden on the hospital remains minimal.
No hospital is solely built for corona patients. It includes other patients (trauma and other disease, preganancies and what not). All the hospitals today in Pakistan are full and those patients are literally begging doctors to admit them and doctors cannot do anything.
I acknowledge all of this, except the begging part as I have not seen it myself , but I take your word for it.
First the number of deaths occuring from Corona is a fact. The respected Shaykh in the video is even denying that there have been deaths. I am truly depressed to hear that.
The video is dated to the beginning of the epidemic, but he clearly does not deny death from the disease, maybe you need to finish the second video.
So lets state the facts again:
1) Corona is a reality.
2) People of all kinds of ages are dying.
3) the mortality rates varies from <1-8% and to even 13% in elderly.
4) Putting on masks, washing hands and avoiding gatherings is correlated with minimal to no development of infection.
5)People with history of travel were correlated with Increased risk and development of infection.
6)An elderly age group is correlated with severe forms of ARDS and increased mortality around 13%.
7) People with history of contact with COVID19 patients were correlated with development of symptoms a week to 2 weeks later in the vast majority of cases.
I had not stated anything against these statistics (which are prone to change , they are dynamic in nature as more records are reported)
Do you know what a Wahm is, in this case?
This is the ACTUAL WAHM:
The example below is just to make you understand. Donot take that as a truth:
1) It has been observed that people staying in contact with COVID19 get infected.
2) It has been observed that people who did not stay in contact with COVID 19 get infected as well.
This is ODD please reconcile for me points (1,4,7) from your facts list with these two points from you Actual WAHM list. If you will argue that staying in contact is different "history of contact," this would be silly to say at the least.
IN THIS IMAGINARY CASE: You are not to be held responsible at ALL for not adopting the precautionary means. Because regardless of adopting precautionary means, the infection rates have been observed to remain equal in both (1) and (2). That is the actual SABAB WAHMI.
As mentioned it does not matter if one gets infected or not, my whole argument isn't in rejection of correlation in agency in pathogenic spreading, it is in rejection of responsibility once the pathogen enters the other persons body, because I AM not responsible on what his destiny is regarding the disease , because it isn't from my own agency that I am spreading anything, Allah has already chosen and written who will be the recipient of the pathogen through me.
You also need to remember that 5% although on its own seems like a small number it isn't. 5% of the whole country's population makes it a very very large number indeed.
It is a very large number but statistically is is still small, I don' wish to undermine the value of those infected, Hasha!, but holistically speaking it is "small." Imagine living your life, where people consistently bombard you with the negative side effects or statics (<20%) about something. It is useful as a warning, but everyone has a choice and should not be enforced.
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Your responsibility comes by knowing the fact that it has been observed that people establishing contact with COVID19 develop symptoms a week or two later and they become the correlating factor for the development of disease in non-infected individuals. You are responsible because you know that not adopting precautionary measures is correlated with increased incidence of development of COVID19 infections.
Thais observation is "Speculation", there is yet to be a case study where this is actually tested and recorded. If the basis of your argument is due to me not adopting precautionary measures, then clearly the Prophet (Peace be Upon him), Sayyidatna Aisha , Sayyiduna Umar, and a group of Sahaba (May Allah be pleased with them all) are all responsible if anything were to happen because they ecouraged "eating with a leaper, (saliva carries the virus)," and enjoining his company over stigmatizing and marginalizing them. You have failed to address the actions of the Prophet and Sahaba and Salaf on this matter (from Umdat al Qari) and also I'll add more :
Who gave the first one "the DISEASE!", not the pathogen, not the virus, not the bacteria, the DISEASE!, because this is a matter of "chance" for a lack of better words, [a matter of QADR], why should I be "directly" responsible,
The question of "who" gave the disease is clear. It is Allah. I fail to see how the fact "that it is Allah who gives the disease" evades you of the responsibility.
This is indeed a strange inference of yours.
Allah has also decreed the actions of the slaves and it is He who created the actions of the slaves. So would you then ask the question "Why should I be responsible?"
You seem to keep forgetting I don't consider disease contagious, I consider pathogens contagious, hence I maybe responsible for spreading pathogens but I am not responsible for the disease, because that is not in my hands (pun not intended).
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
I have not come across a hadith where the Prophet (ﷺ) says, no fire burns another by its own agency, or no water wets another by its own agency, because these are all understood to aadi!, only in relation to "CORRELATION," does the prophet make this differene?! Why??? And then He ﷺ clarifies that the Cause is ? and then proceeds to sequentially list "jahiliyya" notions that were based on correlation, and reject them.
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
Brother it Is not me who needs to understand context, it is easy to apply confirmation bias and say the "harm" intended by the Prophet here is the "harm resulting from getting infected and suffering the pains of that disease," but this isn't the case. The reality is that he said it is Harmful because, a sick person stays at the area of a healthy person, and the healthy gets sick, if he is of weak iman he will blame and HOLD RESPONSIBLE the sick person, and among other "sayings of people" : "stay away brother you will get me sick or I don't want to catch your sickness.
Sharh al Zarqani (http://hadithportal.com/index.php?show=hadith&h_id=1726&uid=0&sharh=8000&book=30&bab_id=554)
From (كتاب: الاستذكار لمذاهب علماء الأمصار فيما تضمنه الموطأ من معاني الرأي والآثار, باب الطيرة والعدوى)
وأما قوله إنه أذى فقال أبو عبيد معنى الأذى عندي المأثم وروى بن وهب عن بن لهيعة عن أبي الزبير عن جابر قال يكره أن يدخل المريض على الصحيح وليس به إلا قول الناس.
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال: «إذا سمعتم بالطاعون بأرض فلا تدخلوها، وإذا وقع بأرض وأنتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها»
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
For the reasons I mentioned above. To not "jump to conclusions, and blame makhluq for the affliction."
Do you think If I wasn't there the disease that was destined to get to him would not get there?
Ofcourse not. Everything would happen according to the decree of Allah. However, Allah has held us accountable for the voluntary choices we make in our life time. You keep forgetting the latter part.
No dear brother, I am just making the passing a virus in not a voluntary action.
One a Side Note, we should understand sickness is a favor and blessing for the Believer, and Plague (and by extension is a mercy and means for martyrdom for the believer) so much so That Prophet ﷺ prayed that his ummah be blessed with this means of death (martyrdom).
So just remember (outside) the Prophetic command of staying in your vicinity, and not entering a Ill Stricken LAND , any precautionary measures taken are in means to prevent "shahada, and an mercy and expiation from sins, which the Prophet ﷺ made dua for."
It maybe your profession is playing a conflict of interest in seeing this situation with its full implications.
When it comes to matters that are not in relation to (epidemic/pandemics), one is to take precautionary measures and (this is obvious for communicable diseases and sabab aadi scenarios) but here the only "command," that is given is to remain in ones place and not go to a land that isn't infected, vice versa. It is not for the reason of spreading or preventing illness, it is to safeguard the iman of understanding of people.
Yes this ^ point can be argued hence why we are having this discussion, but this is the majority opinion, can it change? possibly, should it ? I would argue no.
But again I would side "with caution," around people who will be prone to misunderstanding Qadr , especially after an emotionally sensitive "eye witnessing or observation/experience."
Your responsibility comes by knowing the fact that it has been observed that people establishing contact with COVID19 develop symptoms a week or two later and they become the correlating factor for the development of disease in non-infected individuals. You are responsible because you know that not adopting precautionary measures is correlated with increased incidence of development of COVID19 infections.
Thais observation is "Speculation", there is yet to be a case study where this is actually tested and recorded. If the basis of your argument is due to me not adopting precautionary measures, then clearly the Prophet (Peace be Upon him), Sayyidatna Aisha , Sayyiduna Umar, and a group of Sahaba (May Allah be pleased with them all) are all responsible if anything were to happen because they ecouraged "eating with a leaper, (saliva carries the virus)," and enjoining his company over stigmatizing and marginalizing them. You have failed to address the actions of the Prophet and Sahaba and Salaf on this matter (from Umdat al Qari) and also I'll add more :
Who gave the first one "the DISEASE!", not the pathogen, not the virus, not the bacteria, the DISEASE!, because this is a matter of "chance" for a lack of better words, [a matter of QADR], why should I be "directly" responsible,
The question of "who" gave the disease is clear. It is Allah. I fail to see how the fact "that it is Allah who gives the disease" evades you of the responsibility.
This is indeed a strange inference of yours.
Allah has also decreed the actions of the slaves and it is He who created the actions of the slaves. So would you then ask the question "Why should I be responsible?"
You seem to keep forgetting I don't consider disease contagious, I consider pathogens contagious, hence I maybe responsible for spreading pathogens but I am not responsible for the disease, because that is not in my hands (pun not intended).
What you are failing at is to understand the context of the ahadith:
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
I have not come across a hadith where the Prophet (ﷺ) says, no fire burns another by its own agency, or no water wets another by its own agency, because these are all understood to aadi!, only in relation to "CORRELATION," does the prophet make this differene?! Why??? And then He ﷺ clarifies that the Cause is ? and then proceeds to sequentially list "jahiliyya" notions that were based on correlation, and reject them.
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
Brother it Is not me who needs to understand context, it is easy to apply confirmation bias and say the "harm" intended by the Prophet here is the "harm resulting from getting infected and suffering the pains of that disease," but this isn't the case. The reality is that he said it is Harmful because, a sick person stays at the area of a healthy person, and the healthy gets sick, if he is of weak iman he will blame and HOLD RESPONSIBLE the sick person, and among other "sayings of people" : "stay away brother you will get me sick or I don't want to catch your sickness.
Sharh al Zarqani (http://hadithportal.com/index.php?show=hadith&h_id=1726&uid=0&sharh=8000&book=30&bab_id=554)
From (كتاب: الاستذكار لمذاهب علماء الأمصار فيما تضمنه الموطأ من معاني الرأي والآثار, باب الطيرة والعدوى)
وأما قوله إنه أذى فقال أبو عبيد معنى الأذى عندي المأثم وروى بن وهب عن بن لهيعة عن أبي الزبير عن جابر قال يكره أن يدخل المريض على الصحيح وليس به إلا قول الناس.
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال: «إذا سمعتم بالطاعون بأرض فلا تدخلوها، وإذا وقع بأرض وأنتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها»
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
For the reasons I mentioned above. To not "jump to conclusions, and blame makhluq for the affliction."
Do you think If I wasn't there the disease that was destined to get to him would not get there?
Ofcourse not. Everything would happen according to the decree of Allah. However, Allah has held us accountable for the voluntary choices we make in our life time. You keep forgetting the latter part.
No dear brother, I am just making the passing a virus in not a voluntary action.
One a Side Note, we should understand sickness is a favor and blessing for the Believer, and Plague (and by extension is a mercy and means for martyrdom for the believer) so much so That Prophet ﷺ prayed that his ummah be blessed with this means of death (martyrdom).
عَنْ أُمِّ الْعَلَاءِ قَالَتْ عَادَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَنَا مَرِيضَةٌ فَقَالَ أَبْشِرِي يَا أُمَّ الْعَلَاءِ فَإِنَّ مَرَضَ الْمُسْلِمِ يُذْهِبُ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَطَايَاهُ كَمَا تُذْهِبُ النَّارُ خَبَثَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ
3092 سنن أبي داود كتاب الجنائز باب عيادة النساء
Umm al-Ala reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, visited me when I was sick, and he said, “Be cheerful, O mother of al-Ala. When a Muslim is sick, Allah takes away his sins just as fire takes away impurities in gold and silver.”
3092 سنن أبي داود كتاب الجنائز باب عيادة النساء
Umm al-Ala reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, visited me when I was sick, and he said, “Be cheerful, O mother of al-Ala. When a Muslim is sick, Allah takes away his sins just as fire takes away impurities in gold and silver.”
So just remember (outside) the Prophetic command of staying in your vicinity, and not entering a Ill Stricken LAND , any precautionary measures taken are in means to prevent "shahada, and an mercy and expiation from sins, which the Prophet ﷺ made dua for."
It maybe your profession is playing a conflict of interest in seeing this situation with its full implications.
When it comes to matters that are not in relation to (epidemic/pandemics), one is to take precautionary measures and (this is obvious for communicable diseases and sabab aadi scenarios) but here the only "command," that is given is to remain in ones place and not go to a land that isn't infected, vice versa. It is not for the reason of spreading or preventing illness, it is to safeguard the iman of understanding of people.
Yes this ^ point can be argued hence why we are having this discussion, but this is the majority opinion, can it change? possibly, should it ? I would argue no.
But again I would side "with caution," around people who will be prone to misunderstanding Qadr , especially after an emotionally sensitive "eye witnessing or observation/experience."
SaadSohail
Well-Known Member
@FaqirHaider
The hadith in question DOESNOT deny a correlation. It affirms a correlation "Who infected the first?"
The hadith is denying "that created causes have intrinsic power" and it is only Allah who creates and everything happens by His Will. Another hadith points to this very fact:
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
However, that does not entail denial of correlating factors (an observed phenomena) OR that a person should NOT adopt precautionary measures. The hadith Corpus is full of "precautionary measures."
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
Anas bin Malik narrated that a man said:
"O Messenger of Allah! Shall I tie it and rely(upon Allah), or leave it loose and rely(upon Allah)?" He said: "Tie it and rely(upon Allah)."
Your ability to cherry pick and provide an interpretation that validates your preconcieved notions is quite obvious here. And it will become more obvious below:
Allah has placed responsibility for the voluntary actions you make. How does that make you a Jabari?
This is one of most ignorant arguments I have ever heard in my life.
Aren't you responsible for the voluntary choices you make in your life despite believing that everything happens in accordance with the decree of Allah?
Still missing the point.
How did you jump from 3% of mortality to No harm at all?
Moreover, when did this issue ever pertained to ONLY "Mortality"? This approach of yours would backfire and i would demonstrate that below.
The discussion was always around acknowledging the correlation of events which Allah has decreed followed by showing a degree of responsibility something which is something you are not willing to accept.
1)Aren't a great number of patients getting hospitalized when infected with COVID19?
2)Don't they require hospitalization and oxygen supplementation?
3)Isn't the correlation between contact with COVID19 patients and development of symptoms something that is observed?
4) Hasn't this been seen that failure to adopt precautionary measures by the layman was correlated with mounting hospital overburden, lack of beds and facilities in developed countries like italy and developing countries like Iran with patients dying outside the hospitals?
How does the fact that being infected with COVID19,relates to 20-30% percent urgent hospitalization and case fatality rate is 20% in elderly EQUALS to CONJECTURE?
Which part of this is conjecture according to you?
1) Increased burden on the hospitals and inability to admit the patients who are serious.
2) Financial burdens. Costs of private hospitals are beyond the reach of the common man.
3) Patients unable to receive the urgent hospital care that they require.
4)What that would correlate with is increased number of mortalities due to inavailability of necessary care available to patients suffering from moderate disease (who usually recover with oxygen supplementation).
Which part of this is conjecture according to you?
This is a side-track.
The question was, if this Poison is correlated with 3% mortality or 8% mortality, "Knowing" that will you drink it up? AND if it does lead to your death, are you going to be held responsible or not?
The question that you need to answer is "Why would you drink it in the first place?"
Now this is a false analogy fallacy. You are comparing apple and oranges.
Although the chances of dying from a car accident is 1 out of 103. That equals to .97%
The case fatality rate of eldery COVID19 patients extends to about 20%. That means 20 people out of 100.
I have no inner agenda to skew data in my favour. This is what happens when you speak about things without a qualification. This is unfortunately the case with many people of Pakistan.
They see Jewish conspiracy in many things. And they also like to pose themselves as experts of things which they have not heard of ever before.
This is a red-herring and an irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
First lets get down to the numbers:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported an estimated 36,120 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year, down 1.2% from 36,560 in 2018, even as travel rose 0.9% to 3.23 trillion miles.
The number of deaths from COVID in USA Alone are 117000 since 22nd March.
The red-herring here is:
The original discussion pertained to "Your Responsibility". You have shifted the conversation to "mortality" when it is indeed irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
BTW who you that there is no responsibility when accidents happen?
1) If a person is alcohalic and is driving a car, he poses a risk of harm, injury and death to others.
2) He is a rash driver.
3) Does not abide traffic rules.
4) Listening to music.
5) Headphones.
6) Talking on the phone.
Isn't he responsible in the cases listed above?
This is the ignorance that i am talking about. Let me ask you "Have you bothered to read and research about this matter in detail?"
Your example again is a false analogy fallcy:
In the days of Jahiliya people attributed efficacy to created causes. They believed in a number of superstitions.
This is again a misapplication of the ahadith. This is what actual misconstruing is.
The hadith here is NOT denying "precautionary efforts" in and of themselves.
I could bring you sources from multiple ahadith where we are advised to take precautionary measures, all the while believing that everything is from Allah. I have provided some of them above.
The hadith here is affirming that "their precautionary measures" are unaccounted or disregarded or unnecessary when it comes to the month of Safar. They are simply doing something which is not needed per se.
This hadith is not an explicit denial of taking precautionary measures per se. It is a denial of their measures taken with respect to their superstitious belief of Safar.
I would advise you to read about this thoroughly before you attempt to undermine the "observed" phenomena pertaining to COVID 19.
This is precisely what i was talking about previously when a brother tried to negate the correlating factors "observed".
Your attempt at putting together 1) The correlating factors pertaining to COVID19 AND 2)what arabs during the jahilliya believed pertaining to the month of Safar
is not only a false analogy fallacy, it shows your ignorance of medical science. And that's completely okay.
What's not okay is that you seem to assume that you have somehow got it right without conducting a thorough research. And that's plain wrong.
Remember I also talked about how people were saying Corona is fraud. With all due respect, Shaykh Jalali is wrong when he questioned the "death" and even "existence" of the Corona Virus.
You also seem to implying that what the Arabs believed pertaining to the month of Safar is somewhat similar to that of corona.
I fail to see how the teaching of Shariah "CONTRADICT" with what we know pertaining to COVID19.
In fact what the shariah has taught us, is precisely the line of modality which is recommended in case of Pandemics by the scientists of today.
It is indeed a miracle and a proof that Allah has granted our noble Prophet (alayhi s-salām) immense knowledge of unseen.
What makes you think, commanding the sick to stay where they are and commanding the healthy to NOT enter the "pandemic stricken area" is NOT IHTIYAT?
That’s your hidden assumption being exposed right there
Now that's rather superficial knowledge of Aqeedah.
The claim of “facing death and not flee from it” is not a belief of a muslim.
Why?
1) One does not normally know the time of his death so by definition he cannot face death because that assumes one knows the time of his death and that is not normally possible.
2) One cannot flee from the time of his death because what is decreed is bound to happen.
So your claim is moot.
Moreover, how does practising ihtiyat/caution is equivalent to running away from death?
Where did you pull that out from?
If a person defends himself in a war, by equipping himself with weapons or shield, is he said to be running away from death?
If a person wears a seat belt or a helmet, is he said to be running away from death?
Is running away from a murderer who is advancing towards you with a knife akin to going against the destiny or akin to Not facing death or akin to renegade of war?
And if you respond "it is not".
Then why is it in case of plaque?
And if you say it is. Then that's
Special Pleading fallacy.
The True understanding is that if a person were to run away thinking (deluding himself) he is "delaying" his death from a murderer or a plaque or any disaster, then he is indeed a renegade of war.
1)Again the shariah commands to stay where you are if a plaque breaks out in your area.
2) In other words to not leave the area one lives in.
3) How does that equate to "negating" the precautionary measures while remaining in your area?
4) How did you jump from (1) (2) TO 3?
The prophet commanded to stay where you are if a plaque broke in your area and people outside of those areas should not enter that place. That is precisely what we believe.
This proves the possibility of correlating factors between non-infected and infected individuals and also agrees with the observed reality.
Speaking without knowledge is a bad habit:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/causes
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
If you want research articles, I would be more than willing to provide them to you. None of that is a conjecture.
The hadith in question DOESNOT deny a correlation. It affirms a correlation "Who infected the first?"
The hadith is denying "that created causes have intrinsic power" and it is only Allah who creates and everything happens by His Will. Another hadith points to this very fact:
عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ” لا يعدي شيء شيئا، لا يعدي شيء شيئا “، ثلاثا، قال: فقام أعرابي، فقال: يا رسول الله، إن النقبة تكون بمشفر البعير، أو بعجبه، فتشتمل الإبل جربا، قال: فسكت ساعة، ثم قال: ” ما أعدى الأول، لا عدوى، ولا صفر، ولا هامة، خلق الله كل نفس، فكتب حياتها وموتها ومصيباتها ورزقها “
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “One thing does not infect another by its own agency,” repeating it three times. So a Bedouin said: “Messenger of Allah! When mange effects a camel it spreads to all the camels around.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paused for a moment and said: “Who caused the first one to be diseased? There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah). Allah created every soul, determining its span of life, (time and cause of) its death, its afflictions, and its provisions.
However, that does not entail denial of correlating factors (an observed phenomena) OR that a person should NOT adopt precautionary measures. The hadith Corpus is full of "precautionary measures."
عن أبي هربرة، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: لا عدوى، ولا هام، ولا صفر، ولا يحل الممرض على المصح، وليحلل المصح حيث شاء، قال: ولما ذلك، يا رسول الله؟ قال: إنه أذى
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “There is no contagion (‘adwa), nor is there any vermin calling for revenge (hamah), nor is there a serpent in the belly (safar). The owner of sick livestock, however, must not stop at the same place as the owner of healthy livestock, but the owner of healthy livestock may stop wherever he wishes.” They said, “Messenger of Allah, Why is that?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “(Because) it is harmful.”
Anas bin Malik narrated that a man said:
"O Messenger of Allah! Shall I tie it and rely(upon Allah), or leave it loose and rely(upon Allah)?" He said: "Tie it and rely(upon Allah)."
Your ability to cherry pick and provide an interpretation that validates your preconcieved notions is quite obvious here. And it will become more obvious below:
Allah has placed responsibility for the voluntary actions you make. How does that make you a Jabari?
This is one of most ignorant arguments I have ever heard in my life.
Aren't you responsible for the voluntary choices you make in your life despite believing that everything happens in accordance with the decree of Allah?
Still missing the point.
How did you jump from 3% of mortality to No harm at all?
Moreover, when did this issue ever pertained to ONLY "Mortality"? This approach of yours would backfire and i would demonstrate that below.
The discussion was always around acknowledging the correlation of events which Allah has decreed followed by showing a degree of responsibility something which is something you are not willing to accept.
1)Aren't a great number of patients getting hospitalized when infected with COVID19?
2)Don't they require hospitalization and oxygen supplementation?
3)Isn't the correlation between contact with COVID19 patients and development of symptoms something that is observed?
4) Hasn't this been seen that failure to adopt precautionary measures by the layman was correlated with mounting hospital overburden, lack of beds and facilities in developed countries like italy and developing countries like Iran with patients dying outside the hospitals?
How does the fact that being infected with COVID19,relates to 20-30% percent urgent hospitalization and case fatality rate is 20% in elderly EQUALS to CONJECTURE?
Which part of this is conjecture according to you?
1) Increased burden on the hospitals and inability to admit the patients who are serious.
2) Financial burdens. Costs of private hospitals are beyond the reach of the common man.
3) Patients unable to receive the urgent hospital care that they require.
4)What that would correlate with is increased number of mortalities due to inavailability of necessary care available to patients suffering from moderate disease (who usually recover with oxygen supplementation).
Which part of this is conjecture according to you?
This is a side-track.
The question was, if this Poison is correlated with 3% mortality or 8% mortality, "Knowing" that will you drink it up? AND if it does lead to your death, are you going to be held responsible or not?
The question that you need to answer is "Why would you drink it in the first place?"
Now this is a false analogy fallacy. You are comparing apple and oranges.
Although the chances of dying from a car accident is 1 out of 103. That equals to .97%
The case fatality rate of eldery COVID19 patients extends to about 20%. That means 20 people out of 100.
I have no inner agenda to skew data in my favour. This is what happens when you speak about things without a qualification. This is unfortunately the case with many people of Pakistan.
They see Jewish conspiracy in many things. And they also like to pose themselves as experts of things which they have not heard of ever before.
This is a red-herring and an irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
First lets get down to the numbers:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported an estimated 36,120 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year, down 1.2% from 36,560 in 2018, even as travel rose 0.9% to 3.23 trillion miles.
The number of deaths from COVID in USA Alone are 117000 since 22nd March.
The red-herring here is:
The original discussion pertained to "Your Responsibility". You have shifted the conversation to "mortality" when it is indeed irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
BTW who you that there is no responsibility when accidents happen?
1) If a person is alcohalic and is driving a car, he poses a risk of harm, injury and death to others.
2) He is a rash driver.
3) Does not abide traffic rules.
4) Listening to music.
5) Headphones.
6) Talking on the phone.
Isn't he responsible in the cases listed above?
This is the ignorance that i am talking about. Let me ask you "Have you bothered to read and research about this matter in detail?"
Your example again is a false analogy fallcy:
In the days of Jahiliya people attributed efficacy to created causes. They believed in a number of superstitions.
This is again a misapplication of the ahadith. This is what actual misconstruing is.
The hadith here is NOT denying "precautionary efforts" in and of themselves.
I could bring you sources from multiple ahadith where we are advised to take precautionary measures, all the while believing that everything is from Allah. I have provided some of them above.
The hadith here is affirming that "their precautionary measures" are unaccounted or disregarded or unnecessary when it comes to the month of Safar. They are simply doing something which is not needed per se.
This hadith is not an explicit denial of taking precautionary measures per se. It is a denial of their measures taken with respect to their superstitious belief of Safar.
I would advise you to read about this thoroughly before you attempt to undermine the "observed" phenomena pertaining to COVID 19.
This is precisely what i was talking about previously when a brother tried to negate the correlating factors "observed".
Your attempt at putting together 1) The correlating factors pertaining to COVID19 AND 2)what arabs during the jahilliya believed pertaining to the month of Safar
is not only a false analogy fallacy, it shows your ignorance of medical science. And that's completely okay.
What's not okay is that you seem to assume that you have somehow got it right without conducting a thorough research. And that's plain wrong.
Remember I also talked about how people were saying Corona is fraud. With all due respect, Shaykh Jalali is wrong when he questioned the "death" and even "existence" of the Corona Virus.
You also seem to implying that what the Arabs believed pertaining to the month of Safar is somewhat similar to that of corona.
I fail to see how the teaching of Shariah "CONTRADICT" with what we know pertaining to COVID19.
In fact what the shariah has taught us, is precisely the line of modality which is recommended in case of Pandemics by the scientists of today.
It is indeed a miracle and a proof that Allah has granted our noble Prophet (alayhi s-salām) immense knowledge of unseen.
What makes you think, commanding the sick to stay where they are and commanding the healthy to NOT enter the "pandemic stricken area" is NOT IHTIYAT?
That’s your hidden assumption being exposed right there
Now that's rather superficial knowledge of Aqeedah.
The claim of “facing death and not flee from it” is not a belief of a muslim.
Why?
1) One does not normally know the time of his death so by definition he cannot face death because that assumes one knows the time of his death and that is not normally possible.
2) One cannot flee from the time of his death because what is decreed is bound to happen.
So your claim is moot.
Moreover, how does practising ihtiyat/caution is equivalent to running away from death?
Where did you pull that out from?
If a person defends himself in a war, by equipping himself with weapons or shield, is he said to be running away from death?
If a person wears a seat belt or a helmet, is he said to be running away from death?
Is running away from a murderer who is advancing towards you with a knife akin to going against the destiny or akin to Not facing death or akin to renegade of war?
And if you respond "it is not".
Then why is it in case of plaque?
And if you say it is. Then that's
Special Pleading fallacy.
The True understanding is that if a person were to run away thinking (deluding himself) he is "delaying" his death from a murderer or a plaque or any disaster, then he is indeed a renegade of war.
1)Again the shariah commands to stay where you are if a plaque breaks out in your area.
2) In other words to not leave the area one lives in.
3) How does that equate to "negating" the precautionary measures while remaining in your area?
4) How did you jump from (1) (2) TO 3?
The prophet commanded to stay where you are if a plaque broke in your area and people outside of those areas should not enter that place. That is precisely what we believe.
This proves the possibility of correlating factors between non-infected and infected individuals and also agrees with the observed reality.
Speaking without knowledge is a bad habit:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/causes
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
If you want research articles, I would be more than willing to provide them to you. None of that is a conjecture.
SaadSohail
Well-Known Member
@FaqirHaider
Please read previous post #57
Your break down of the disease is meaningless. Since you have 0 idea pertaining to medical science. You are only wild-guessing by asking shaykh google and trying to act smart when you are not.
Do you even understand the meaning of asymptomatic? It is not the poison that is asymptomatic, it is the patient in question. And a disease is not said to be asymptomatic, it is the patient on which the symptoms appear. A person not able to tell this simple A, B, C is going to teach us the “stark” difference between "symptomlessness of a poisionous element and a disease"?
Are you kidding me?
The blunders you made above are enough to dispel you from this conversation. There are more blunders to come.
The example i have given is indeed a perfect analogy. It is Not an analogy drawn between COVID19 and Diabetes. You are straw-manning me. Go back and read again.
It was the analogy drawn to show you that the example of diabetes is SABAB WAHMI but that doesnot entail removal of responsibility.
Does the parents having diabetes normally necessitates (sabab aadi) diabetes in children?
Does the poor glycemic index normally necessitates (sabab aadi) gangrene of toes?
Does the poor glycemic index normally necessitates (sabab aadi) silent heart attacks?
Let’s look at the example I gave previously:
A diabetic person despite being warned by doctors to adopt a healthy lifestyle complete ignores his advise and doesnot mend his ways. The doctor has even told him that if he doesnot mend his ways, studies have shown that diabetics without proper glycemic control end up getting their toes amputated (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
The man doesnot mend his ways.3 months later, his toes are amputated. 6 months later his whole foot is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
Is this person not responsible for not taking care of his health? Or is he going to present excuse of predestination for his inability of not taking the right actions? Despite being told by the doctor that he should mend his ways? Or is he going to say that this was Sabab Wahmi, so he is not responsible?is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
This is known as “axing your foot”. So non-comunicable diseases are “Sabab Aadi” (please have a look at the statistics shown in the example above) and communicable diseases (mortality rate of 20% in COVID elderly patients) is "Sabab Wahmi".
Actually, you do not even know the meaning of wahmi or aadi. You are simply parroting what you might have overheard from the scholars but never bothered to understand or reflect about.
So here you admit that a diabetic is responsible for his actions which are correlated with toes amputation (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
But when it comes to “COVID19” the person is not responsible.
This is nothing but a categorical denial of “correlating event” in case of infections.
Why you may ask? Using your methodology of using "mortality" rates:
(See below)
"""Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 based on the 83,564 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.
The number of deaths is 83564 in 365 days.
But diabetes is sabab adi according to him."""
"""Let’s see deaths from COVID 19 in USA in from 4th march to 16 June. Number of deaths:
118000 in 102 days. That’s not even a whole year.
But COVID19 is sabab wahmi according to him."""
You have no idea what this conversation is about. Your logical inconsistency shows you are just arguing for the sake of arguing.
I will be addressing the rest of your other posts later. Have to go.
It is a request to Not reply UNTIL i have finished responding to all of your posts.
Thank you.
Please read previous post #57
Your break down of the disease is meaningless. Since you have 0 idea pertaining to medical science. You are only wild-guessing by asking shaykh google and trying to act smart when you are not.
Do you even understand the meaning of asymptomatic? It is not the poison that is asymptomatic, it is the patient in question. And a disease is not said to be asymptomatic, it is the patient on which the symptoms appear. A person not able to tell this simple A, B, C is going to teach us the “stark” difference between "symptomlessness of a poisionous element and a disease"?
Are you kidding me?
The blunders you made above are enough to dispel you from this conversation. There are more blunders to come.
The example i have given is indeed a perfect analogy. It is Not an analogy drawn between COVID19 and Diabetes. You are straw-manning me. Go back and read again.
It was the analogy drawn to show you that the example of diabetes is SABAB WAHMI but that doesnot entail removal of responsibility.
Does the parents having diabetes normally necessitates (sabab aadi) diabetes in children?
Does the poor glycemic index normally necessitates (sabab aadi) gangrene of toes?
Does the poor glycemic index normally necessitates (sabab aadi) silent heart attacks?
Let’s look at the example I gave previously:
A diabetic person despite being warned by doctors to adopt a healthy lifestyle complete ignores his advise and doesnot mend his ways. The doctor has even told him that if he doesnot mend his ways, studies have shown that diabetics without proper glycemic control end up getting their toes amputated (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
The man doesnot mend his ways.3 months later, his toes are amputated. 6 months later his whole foot is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
Is this person not responsible for not taking care of his health? Or is he going to present excuse of predestination for his inability of not taking the right actions? Despite being told by the doctor that he should mend his ways? Or is he going to say that this was Sabab Wahmi, so he is not responsible?is amputated. After a year he dies from what they call a "Silent" heart attack.
This is known as “axing your foot”. So non-comunicable diseases are “Sabab Aadi” (please have a look at the statistics shown in the example above) and communicable diseases (mortality rate of 20% in COVID elderly patients) is "Sabab Wahmi".
Actually, you do not even know the meaning of wahmi or aadi. You are simply parroting what you might have overheard from the scholars but never bothered to understand or reflect about.
So here you admit that a diabetic is responsible for his actions which are correlated with toes amputation (10%), foot amputation (8%) and silent heart attacks (13%).
But when it comes to “COVID19” the person is not responsible.
This is nothing but a categorical denial of “correlating event” in case of infections.
Why you may ask? Using your methodology of using "mortality" rates:
(See below)
"""Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 based on the 83,564 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.
The number of deaths is 83564 in 365 days.
But diabetes is sabab adi according to him."""
"""Let’s see deaths from COVID 19 in USA in from 4th march to 16 June. Number of deaths:
118000 in 102 days. That’s not even a whole year.
But COVID19 is sabab wahmi according to him."""
Please have a look at the statistics pertaining to COVID 19 and diabetes.
You have no idea what this conversation is about. Your logical inconsistency shows you are just arguing for the sake of arguing.
I will be addressing the rest of your other posts later. Have to go.
It is a request to Not reply UNTIL i have finished responding to all of your posts.
Thank you.
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Unbeknown
Senior Moderator
astounding ...
with that reasoning, I guess that the prayers and azkaar going on all around the world for this pandemic to end and for the recoveries of those affected - well they must be prayers against the prayer of the Prophet (peace be upon him)?
Instead, it would make more sense to pray for the pandemic to be prolonged and beg for maximum destruction of life and business.
And all the books of awraad written for protection and cure from diseases - should be, what ... burnt? aren't they too trying to "prevent shahada and mercy and expiation of sins"?
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just a tongue in cheek reply ... think for yourself, where are we going with this next?
SaadSohail
Well-Known Member
Coming back to the discussion and resuming where I left.
There are some points that need to be addressed.
First an issue was raised against symptomless carriers and it was claimed that this is pure conjecture.
First of all, carriers are those who harbor the pathogen (common to a certain disease) but they do not develop the set of symptoms characteristic to the particular disease.
There are a number of diseases whose associated organisms have been found in individuals without the development of symptoms. However, they have been correlated with the development of symptoms or presence of an organism with absence of symptoms in other individuals following exposure.
Some of these include: HIV, Bacillary dysentery, Cholera, Giardiasis, typhoid, schistosomiasis, HCV, tuberculosis, polio.
Anybody interested could look these up on PUBMED.
You are still working under the assumption that “correlating factors” for “becoming infected” are based on mere conjecture. This is totally false.
Although one has to admit, the mortality rates are relatively low when the whole of the population is taken BUT it is still a very large number. Large enough to cluster hospitals (which is already happening in Pakistan. Has happen in Iran. Italy and china were able to develop ICUs, new hospitals and everything but that is not going to happen in developing countries at all.Arguing about that would be a moot
What that means is a significant number of moderate to severe cases who do require hospitalization due to decreased oxygen saturation wouldn’t be able to receive oxygen for their loved ones. If anybody has seen a moderate-severe corona patient, he would see what I am talking about. Even with high pressure oxygen and intubation they are literally gasping for air.
The large number of recoveries that we do see happening in developed countries is that their facilities are not limited. They can afford to build hospitals and provide ventilators.
If it was Pakistan, the number of recovering patients would be far low. This is true because recovery is correlated with provision of the necessary/supportive management to such patients.
Our bodies functions are normally (necessarily) correlated with oxygen. And oxygen levels are the first to go down in a significant number of COVID19 patients with moderate –severe disease (pneumonia and/or ARDS). This affects both the elderly and the non-elderly patients.
What that means is we have to show responsibility by taking the precautions. It is time to stop acting Naïve.
Majority of People in Pakistan cannot afford 10 lac (6000 dollars) stay in private hospitals for 7 days.
And developing countries CANNOT afford lockdowns as well for long periods.
I don’t gain anything from telling you this information. I don’t have the time to misrepresent data and to be honest a forum would be a last resort for validating my confirmation bias.
Had you made any visit to ICUs and emergency wards, you would have realized what I am talking about.
This is not something “unpredictable”. The correlating factors are known, and more information is being released.
Unpredictability would have been IF all people regardless of being in contact with COVID-19 patients would have become infected. In that case, there should have been no calls for social distancing, masks, washing hands or sanitization.
1) How long were they infected?
2) Were they still infected?
3) Were they showing symptoms?
4) Did you do your tests?
5)Your immune status.
Look I am not advocating that being in the vicinity of COVID19 patients by default means you will develop COVID19. What I am against is your naivety and your mindset. That is the problem.
You are “ONE” individual. You are not the majority here.
Are you serious? Where did I say asymptomatic equates equates being diseased? IF on culture, COVID 19 organisms are SEEN, and you do not have and do not develop COVID19 Symptoms, AND there is history of prior contact with COVID19 patients, you need to self-isolate (do quarantine), avoid interaction and repeat swabs and culture after a week or two until they are “NEGATIVE” for COVID19. This is the standard protocol.
What’s the use you may ask?
First the incubation period of the disease is 7-14 days, and after that you may develop symptoms. Even if you do not, there is growing evidence (in terms of COVID19. I am NOT talking about other diseases I have mentioned above. You can check them up on PUBMED), that you may be an asymptomatic carrier correlated with increased incidence of COVID19 in non-infected individuals upon exposure/contact.
What i should say here is to read what has been written above with an open mind and try to understand what I am talking about.
This should put things in perspective:
CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2019, through April 4, 2020, there have been:
24000-62000 deaths in US alone. That’s in 7 months. (FLU)
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
"""Let’s see deaths from COVID 19 in USA in from 4th march to 16 June. Number of deaths:
118000 in 102 days in 3 months.
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths.
Source: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/219557-overview#a6
Confirmed cases of corona virus are 7.69 million, confirmed deaths are 428,000. And total number of recovered cases is unknown. In
But Pakistan as a developing country are underreporting the deaths because we do not and cannot perform wide-spread testing, UNLIKE America or Italy, or Spain , or France.
So this claim of “labeling patients as COVID19” is a stretch when in used in relation to Pakistan.
Straw-man argument. I want you to go back and read what I wrote. Let me quote it here:
A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Does what I wrote above equals “ALL”?
Where did I deny the minority? Or are you postulating or insinuating that since you didn’t develop Corona upon contact with COVID19 patients then it sort of undermines the correlation that “majority of people develop COVID19 following contact with COVID19 patients?”
You are beating a straw-man that you set up yourself.
Let me ask you a better question:
What actually prevents you from taking precautionary measures in scenario that you were recently involved in, such as using masks?
Do you deny that the incubation period of disease 10-14 days? What that means is such individuals harbor the virus but do not develop symptoms.
Or do you deny that COVID19 infected individuals (without harbouring the virus) could be the correlating factors for the development of COVID 19 (either in the form of virus or symptoms)?
No one made a comment about rapid growth of the disease. You continue to miss the point. I would recommend going back and reading what has been actually said instead of assuming what has not been said.
Fair enough.
Don’t you think its irrelevant to the discussion at hand? Nowhere did I claim that it has been associated 90-99% fatalities BUT:
the question is,
is there any way you could show some degree of responsibility?
That is the question, brother.
Is that the only reason one closes the door if a serial killer comes to your house? Muslims do not close door because they think they could evade the time of death.
But that doesn’t mean Muslims don’t act responsibly. They do adopt precautionary measures. They are not fatalists.
Please don't assume your addressee’s position. It is a bad habit.
Give these a read:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/asia/pakistan-coronavirus-hospitals.html
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pa...hospitals-near-collapse-under-strain-covid-19
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...oronavirus-cases-explode-200612084123797.html
The only hospitals that are not full are private ones. And they are charging 6000 dollars for 7 days (10 lac PKR).
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...oronavirus-cases-explode-200612084123797.html
There are some points that need to be addressed.
First an issue was raised against symptomless carriers and it was claimed that this is pure conjecture.
First of all, carriers are those who harbor the pathogen (common to a certain disease) but they do not develop the set of symptoms characteristic to the particular disease.
There are a number of diseases whose associated organisms have been found in individuals without the development of symptoms. However, they have been correlated with the development of symptoms or presence of an organism with absence of symptoms in other individuals following exposure.
Some of these include: HIV, Bacillary dysentery, Cholera, Giardiasis, typhoid, schistosomiasis, HCV, tuberculosis, polio.
Anybody interested could look these up on PUBMED.
You are still working under the assumption that “correlating factors” for “becoming infected” are based on mere conjecture. This is totally false.
Although one has to admit, the mortality rates are relatively low when the whole of the population is taken BUT it is still a very large number. Large enough to cluster hospitals (which is already happening in Pakistan. Has happen in Iran. Italy and china were able to develop ICUs, new hospitals and everything but that is not going to happen in developing countries at all.Arguing about that would be a moot
What that means is a significant number of moderate to severe cases who do require hospitalization due to decreased oxygen saturation wouldn’t be able to receive oxygen for their loved ones. If anybody has seen a moderate-severe corona patient, he would see what I am talking about. Even with high pressure oxygen and intubation they are literally gasping for air.
The large number of recoveries that we do see happening in developed countries is that their facilities are not limited. They can afford to build hospitals and provide ventilators.
If it was Pakistan, the number of recovering patients would be far low. This is true because recovery is correlated with provision of the necessary/supportive management to such patients.
Our bodies functions are normally (necessarily) correlated with oxygen. And oxygen levels are the first to go down in a significant number of COVID19 patients with moderate –severe disease (pneumonia and/or ARDS). This affects both the elderly and the non-elderly patients.
What that means is we have to show responsibility by taking the precautions. It is time to stop acting Naïve.
Majority of People in Pakistan cannot afford 10 lac (6000 dollars) stay in private hospitals for 7 days.
And developing countries CANNOT afford lockdowns as well for long periods.
I don’t gain anything from telling you this information. I don’t have the time to misrepresent data and to be honest a forum would be a last resort for validating my confirmation bias.
Had you made any visit to ICUs and emergency wards, you would have realized what I am talking about.
This is not something “unpredictable”. The correlating factors are known, and more information is being released.
Unpredictability would have been IF all people regardless of being in contact with COVID-19 patients would have become infected. In that case, there should have been no calls for social distancing, masks, washing hands or sanitization.
There are a number of factors one has to take into account.
1) How long were they infected?
2) Were they still infected?
3) Were they showing symptoms?
4) Did you do your tests?
5)Your immune status.
Look I am not advocating that being in the vicinity of COVID19 patients by default means you will develop COVID19. What I am against is your naivety and your mindset. That is the problem.
How does the fact that you “did not” get infected following exposure/contact with COVID19 undermines the fact “that majority of people interacting with COVID19” do develop the disease?
You are “ONE” individual. You are not the majority here.
Are you serious? Where did I say asymptomatic equates equates being diseased? IF on culture, COVID 19 organisms are SEEN, and you do not have and do not develop COVID19 Symptoms, AND there is history of prior contact with COVID19 patients, you need to self-isolate (do quarantine), avoid interaction and repeat swabs and culture after a week or two until they are “NEGATIVE” for COVID19. This is the standard protocol.
What’s the use you may ask?
First the incubation period of the disease is 7-14 days, and after that you may develop symptoms. Even if you do not, there is growing evidence (in terms of COVID19. I am NOT talking about other diseases I have mentioned above. You can check them up on PUBMED), that you may be an asymptomatic carrier correlated with increased incidence of COVID19 in non-infected individuals upon exposure/contact.
What i should say here is to read what has been written above with an open mind and try to understand what I am talking about.
This should put things in perspective:
CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2019, through April 4, 2020, there have been:
24000-62000 deaths in US alone. That’s in 7 months. (FLU)
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
"""Let’s see deaths from COVID 19 in USA in from 4th march to 16 June. Number of deaths:
118000 in 102 days in 3 months.
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths.
Source: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/219557-overview#a6
Confirmed cases of corona virus are 7.69 million, confirmed deaths are 428,000. And total number of recovered cases is unknown. In
I wouldn’t question that. That is known as associated morbidities.
But Pakistan as a developing country are underreporting the deaths because we do not and cannot perform wide-spread testing, UNLIKE America or Italy, or Spain , or France.
So this claim of “labeling patients as COVID19” is a stretch when in used in relation to Pakistan.
Straw-man argument. I want you to go back and read what I wrote. Let me quote it here:
A person who gets in contact with a diseased COVID-19 is correlated with development of symptoms about 7-14 days later. That is observed in a vast vast majority of cases.
Does what I wrote above equals “ALL”?
Where did I deny the minority? Or are you postulating or insinuating that since you didn’t develop Corona upon contact with COVID19 patients then it sort of undermines the correlation that “majority of people develop COVID19 following contact with COVID19 patients?”
You are beating a straw-man that you set up yourself.
This is again missing the point. I have addressed the main gist above. Try reading with an open mind.
Let me ask you a better question:
What actually prevents you from taking precautionary measures in scenario that you were recently involved in, such as using masks?
Do you deny that the incubation period of disease 10-14 days? What that means is such individuals harbor the virus but do not develop symptoms.
Or do you deny that COVID19 infected individuals (without harbouring the virus) could be the correlating factors for the development of COVID 19 (either in the form of virus or symptoms)?
No one made a comment about rapid growth of the disease. You continue to miss the point. I would recommend going back and reading what has been actually said instead of assuming what has not been said.
Fair enough.
Don’t you think its irrelevant to the discussion at hand? Nowhere did I claim that it has been associated 90-99% fatalities BUT:
the question is,
is there any way you could show some degree of responsibility?
That is the question, brother.
Is that the only reason one closes the door if a serial killer comes to your house? Muslims do not close door because they think they could evade the time of death.
But that doesn’t mean Muslims don’t act responsibly. They do adopt precautionary measures. They are not fatalists.
Please don't assume your addressee’s position. It is a bad habit.
Give these a read:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/asia/pakistan-coronavirus-hospitals.html
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pa...hospitals-near-collapse-under-strain-covid-19
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...oronavirus-cases-explode-200612084123797.html
The only hospitals that are not full are private ones. And they are charging 6000 dollars for 7 days (10 lac PKR).
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...oronavirus-cases-explode-200612084123797.html