Does Covid-19 had been mentioned in Quran?

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Forget about the names of any viruses because there are many!
Long time ago viruses names were not given because people’s we’re not so much educated as we are now! But history reveals that first viruses sickness was broken out before calendar counting were even started
The first virus was broken out in world was 700 to 800 years before even Jesus was born, 2100 to 2200 years before Mohammed (sas) was born I mean Quran or Bible were not written at that time! That virus didn’t killed many peoples because there were not many peoples either!
Now my question is , Does either in Quran or in Bible did Allah mentioned about theses suck illness? Does this Kind sickness ever have been mentioned in Quran in Bible or even in and religions books?
Therefore Quran is not complete! Why? It doesn’t have answers of all questions nowadays day’s are arising 😇
Believe me or not I read Quran in three different languages but I haven’t finds answers of following questions!
Can any one help me to find Surahs chapters slockas ?
1, Can we donate our human organ?
2, does new viruses will broken out? What is solution for not to broken out or stop them to broken out? Now a days just for example: does medical science has any. Vaccines to stop it?😂 answers is no at least.

No, not yet!
But! Wait there are many illnesses and sickness has to come! Why? How to stop those sicknesses does Quran / Bible / Geeta or Tauren has any answers?
No, no, and No.
Do you still believe Quran is complete! Brothers you are believing wrong
For correct answer can give is one person and he is Ismaili imam. Period

[swamidada_2]

Forget about the names of any viruses because there are many!
Believe me or not I read Quran in three different languages but I haven’t finds answers of following questions!
Can any one help me to find Surahs chapters slockas ?
1, Can we donate our human organ?
2, does new viruses will broken out? What is solution for not to broken out or stop them to broken out? Now a days just for example: does medical science has any. Vaccines to stop it?😂 answers is no at least.

No, not yet!
But! Wait there are many illnesses and sickness has to come! Why? How to stop those sicknesses does Quran / Bible / Geeta or Tauren has any answers?
No, no, and No.
Do you still believe Quran is complete! Brothers you are believing wrong
For correct answer can give is one person and he is Ismaili imam. Period

quran says;
And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient Who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return." 2:155-156

So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people. 7:133

Through out human history, there had been viruses faced by humans but were not recorded as humans were not so advanced and literate as you have mentioned also. All health disasters were mentioned as plagues. Mostly those plagues were spread by animals. In past few decades these all viruses spread by animals.

Hazar Imam says, 'follow the laws of land as well advise of doctors'. He prays and give blessings to over come the disasters.

[agakhani_1]

Thanks for the answers.
Many Ismaili ginans are specially composed on future predictions and many predictions already mentioned in ginans has comes true. There are many predictions still needs to comes true yet. I think "virus" word was not prophet (sas) and Ismaili pirs times so, pirs has only mentioned viruses as a 'BIMARI, a common words in Gujarati language during Pirs time." .
There is a link in this websites any one interested to know more about future predictions ,I recompensed them to visit that links.

[Admin]

We should not run to find in Quran all the deceases and Pandemic of the world like the Spanish Flu, The Sars, the Covit-19, etc

For your info:

The Justinian Plague killed 50 millions people
The Bubonic Plague: 200 millions deaths
Smallpox 56 million deaths
HIV 30 millions deaths
Spanish Flu 50 millions

These are only a sample of what the world has being going though from time to time and if the Holy books have not told about these, why would the Quran or the ginans talk of Covit-19 that will kill a lot lot less.

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DAWN.COM
APRIL 06, 2020
Corona — our debt to Darwin
Pervez Hoodbhoy Updated April 04, 2020

CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or, if they go ahead, first soften it with a ton of scorn. A commonly used biology school textbook rubbishes the theory, claiming that evolution of species is tantamount to assuming that “a motor car is evolved” when two rickshaws collide. Imran Khan, in his 2002 article, blamed the West’s follies upon, “Philosophers like Darwin, who with his half-baked theory of evolution had supposedly disproved the creation of men and hence religion, were read and revered”.

With the corona apocalypse looming ahead, it doesn’t matter that Darwin was a naturalist, biologist and geologist rather than philosopher. It also doesn’t matter that Darwin gets lashed regularly by Christian, Jewish and Hindu fundamentalists as well. Yet every hope for dealing with today’s rogue virus rests squarely upon Darwin’s 200-year-old discovery of the principle of natural selection.

In a nutshell: natural selection says that life on Earth didn’t come pre-purposed and pre-formed, as tradition insists. Instead, it holds that, whether for man or microbe, only those forms of life best adapted to a specific environment survive while all others die away. Most crucially, evolution maintains that new kinds of life and new molecules randomly appear. A few — like corona virus — will chance upon some suitable animal or human cell and thrive.

Hopes for dealing scientifically with the virus rest upon Darwin’s discovery of the principle of natural selection.

Not convinced? Then get yourself some slides and a powerful microscope — actually, a million-dollar electron microscope would work best. Then wait and watch as cells reproduce. You will soon see some that are imperfect copies. While most bad ones die away, a few survive and then proliferate.

This, for example, is how cancerous cells form. Experiments at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre show exactly how certain common species of bacteria respond when their environment is changed. This led distinguished molecular biologist, Harmit Malik, to remark that natural evolution is “the world’s definitive game of cat and mouse. Viruses evolve, the host adapts, proteins change, viruses evade them. It never ends”.

Darwinian selection is as fundamental to biology as Newton’s Law is to physics. Denying the theory of gravity will not cause gravity to disappear. However, it will certainly destroy our ability to do physics. Similarly, not teaching evolutionary theory won’t stop brand new forms of viruses from emerging. But then forget about any scientific approach to diseases and epidemics.

Without Darwinian selection one can’t even begin to understand microbial-host interaction, the evolution of pathogens, or start developing drug and vaccines. So go ahead and blame Darwin for inventing the notion that only the fittest survive. But then also punish Newton because apples insist on falling downward rather than rising upward.

Now the good news: most educated people are beginning to understand why scientific approaches work and unscientific ones don’t. Better still, even ultra-conservative and science-rejecting world leaders are now begging scientists to speed up the rescue work. For all their talks about faith and calls to bang utensils or clap from balconies, they end up pleading for anti-coronavirus vaccines and drugs. Bluff, bluster and bombast have limits.

Take Narendra Modi and his claims of ancient India’s vast medical expertise. For years he and his Hindutva crew have dwelt upon the therapeutic powers of gomutra (cow urine) while also extolling ayurveda and yoga. But India is not calling for emergency dispatches of ‘Cow-ka-Cola’ and dung to India’s most affected areas.

On our side of the border we have yet to order a shipload of Ajwa-Khajoor (dates from Ajwa in Saudi Arabia) touted as cure for all diseases by Maulana Tariq Jameel, Pakistan’s most popular preacher and a staunch Imran Khan ally. Nor is the government arranging sacrifices of a million kala bakras or mass importing olive oil and kalonji.

Instead, the mood is sober and reflective in all power centres. Last Saturday, Pope Francis held a dramatic, solitary prayer service at the Vatican. Speaking to an eerily empty square, he urged the world to see the Covid-19 pandemic as a test of solidarity. Three hundred years ago, the Church finally gave up attributing plagues and natural catastrophes to divine punishment.

Iran has learned a bitter lesson as well. Last month, its religious authorities recognised they had made a colossal blunder by initially allowing pilgrims to visit shrines in Qom and Mashhad. This permission was later rescinded but Iran has reported over 3,000 dead and the disease has spilled over into Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The shocker, however, was Saudi Arabia’s suspension of umrah, followed by an announcement that a decision on Haj will be taken soon. This is very wise. Getting millions together — who would subsequently spread the virus in their home countries — could be just as serious as dropping an atomic bomb on each Muslim capital. Consider, for example, that in the middle of the 14th century more than half the population of England died, and that 25m perished in various parts of Europe.

What if this year’s Haj was under Imran Khan rather than Mohammad bin Salman? Would he have waffled there as indeed he has in Pakistan? The PTI government has seriously downplayed the seriousness of the situation. Although Tableeghi Jamaat congregations have finally been banned, the damage has already been done. Shrine visits still continue.

Fortunately, the Sindh and Balochistan governments have shown more resolve. Moreover, the military seems to be taking orders from somewhere other than the government and is forcibly shutting down possible infection hotspots. Checkpoints now dot cities across Pakistan, somewhat inhibiting the free flow of people and the viruses they carry. Whether this will suffice remains to be seen.

Thanks to biological science — the foundation of which was laid by Charles Darwin — the corona virus will eventually turn out to be a deadly but controllable affair. Its final worldwide death toll may run into many tens, or perhaps hundreds, of thousands. Still, compared to the toll exacted by pre-scientific era plagues, this will be small. Your life may well be saved by some yet to be invented drug or vaccine. All beneficiaries of modern medicine should surely forgive Darwin for his supposed transgressions.

The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2020

https://www.dawn.com/news/1546317/coron ... -to-darwin

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Ibn e Sina 'Avicenna' an Ismaili (980-1037) suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganism? To prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He called this method "al-Arba'iniya", means 'the forty'. Traders from Venice heard of this successful method and took this knowledge back to contemporary Italy.They called it "Quaratine" (the forty in Italian), this is where the word 'quarantine comes from. The origins of the methods currently being used in much of the world to fight pandemics have their origins in the Islamic world.

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Ancient plagues

Irfan Husain
April 11, 2020

AS we endure the corona virus, with all its suffering, discomfort and death, we would do well to reflect on other times, other plagues.

In other words, there have been far worse pandemics over the centuries. Some of them devastated civilizations, and brought cities, tribes and nations to their knees.

Just as Covid-19 recognizes no social boundaries, so, too, did ancient plagues cross physical and political borders with ease. Then, as now, globalization was the main driver behind the spread of such pandemics.

In the third century AD, a terrible plague went through the Roman Empire, like a hot knife through butter. According to contemporary accounts, the plague, akin to Ebola, caused the bowels to melt; blood to ooze from the eyes; and feet to rot away. Among this frightful carnage, the Roman Empire collapsed into anarchy.

Once it had recovered and moved its capital to Constantinople, it fell once more to another epidemic that began its westward journey from China. In many iterations of the bubonic plague, bacteria would hitch a ride with lice that rode on rats travelling on board ships sailing to the West.

In Alexandria, they would be filled with grain imported by Constantinople. Here, the cargo would be sold across Europe where the bacteria would cause epidemics of plague that killed hundreds of thousands. Corpses would rot in the streets, and aristocrats and peasants alike would be struck down.

Millions suffered grievously from the Justinian plague that visited Byzantium in the sixth and seventh centuries. Historians speculate that the mass deaths that occurred in East Europe and the Middle East in that era tilted the balance of power towards North Europe when Slavic invasions into the Balkans and Greece, the Lombardic incursions into Italy, and the Berber invasions of Byzantium weakened the existing world order.

In Arab lands, some 25,000 Muslim soldiers died in the plague of ’Amwas. In a familiar refrain, the suffering of the Muslims was ascribed to moral laxity. According to the clergy, the plague struck because people there drank alcohol. Since before that period, man-made and natural disasters have been blamed on similar human failings. To this day, our clerics blame all kinds of misfortunes on our deviation from holy laws.

And lest we think Covid-19 is the nastiest epidemic mankind has encountered, consider the Black Death that wreaked havoc across Europe in the mid-14th century. Started by 12 ships that docked in Sicily in 1347, it was ultimately responsible for claiming 75m to 125m lives in Europe and North Africa. This represented 30 per cent to 60pc of the population of 475m. It took 200 years to recover these numbers.

So when we speak of some thousands of lives lost, the truth is that this number is peanuts when compared with the major plagues mankind has lived through in the past. In the 19th century, a plague swept out of Yunnan in China (again!) that may have caused over 10m deaths. A million of these took place in India, hitting the port cities of Mumbai, Kolkata and Karachi.

In those days, vaccines had just made a tentative appearance. Crowded shanty towns encouraged the rapid spread of the disease, while the lack of sewage and basic hygiene made large communities highly vulnerable. And nor was ‘social distancing’ considered feasible in densely packed neighbourhoods.

Today, despite the huge advances we have made in medical science, we continue to get hit by pandemics time and again (MERS, Ebola, etc). In fact, influenza is a type of virus-borne disease not unlike Covid-19. The latter is more lethal, of course, but the former takes over 2m lives a year. Both can lead to pneumonia and death.

When AIDS first appeared on the scene in the 1980s, the godly decided that it was a disease that usually struck gay men, and was thus divine punishment aimed at homosexuals. Now, after years of experimentation, a cure has been found, and AIDS is just another addition to the long list of diseases that keeps doctors and researchers busy.

It is our response to Covid-19 that sets it apart from other pandemics. The self-isolation and social distancing put into place means that most people are cut off from jobs, businesses and personal relationships. This is playing havoc with the economy and our society. In England, there are already rumblings of rebellion.

There is also the larger question of how to put society and the economy together again after the pandemic is over. Modes of production and communication have already undergone profound changes, and we do not yet know if they can be restored to their pre-corona virus shape again.

As usual, it is the poor who are suffering the most, especially in the Third World. Without clean water to wash their hands, they are more prone to catch the virus, and less likely to get proper treatment. Covid-19 thus exposes the deep fractures in society.

Published in Dawn, April 11th, 2020
https://www.dawn.com/news/1548233/ancient-plagues

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Quran says;
So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people. 7:133

Food for thought:
In past few years head lines of news read;
Locusts in few countries ate up agriculture products.
Floods in some countries.
Animal diseases.
And now Corona virus.