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How do you change a society’s merciless, individualistic ethos that values personal freedom above all else and convince them of the duty towards others and preservation of life?https://twitter.com/pagesix/status/1240642373190811649 …

where we both maintain practice, and do what we need to do to protect others and ourselves in cases like this.

It’s no doubt tough. Islam is a collective religion. But that means being able to prioritize. In a zoom halaqa last week, @DrRaniaAwaad mentioned how Allah has promised us trials and afflication, and so it follows that there is, within the deen, ways to approach this...

Muslims and Muslim leaders need to take this seriously (and Alhamdullilah many have, but some think congregation cancellation is unnecessary). Lives are at stake. In Malaysia, a single congregation lead to the virus spreading to six countries. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1241006601269641217?s=21 …https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1241006601269641217 …

Jumuah Mubarak! Even with no congregational prayer, still so much blessing in the sunnahs of Friday like reading Surah Kahf, looking fresh, etc. and we wait patiently, praying Allah swt invites us back to His houses soon.

Another iconic ideahttps://twitter.com/ibnabitareq/status/1240828838222888961 …

Everything might be shut down, our mosques might be closed, but we prioritize each other and we place our hope and fears with Allah. Ibadah’ orients the heart and nourishes us for the days to come, and for the duties we must fulfill towards others. Tawakkul asks no less.

No time to tolerate incompetency and utterly pathetic attitudes towards preserving life. No faith in leaders who have no concern for the well-being of their people and sow constant fear.

The recent Delhi pogrom - Muslims set on fire, their bodies thrown in sewage drains - and incompetent leaders in the bloody aftermath have left thousands in relief camps. Now they face a pandemic.

We - in our quarantine - begin to glimpse what restriction of movement and curfews feel like, but with the promise of benefit and an end. Imagine them imposed by cruel regimes, or being rendered stateless - the degree of corruption, treated as lesser than beasts.

May Allah forgive inaction. At the very least, make fierce dua for the people of Syria, Uyghurs, the Rohingya, Kashmiris, Palestinians, and more who are caged in, facing nightmare conditions. If the virus hasn’t already spread to them imagine the destruction if (when?) it does.

of the coronavirus disease in response to political considerations, adjusting their coverage to make the U.S. executive branch leadership look like leaders.”

“Chinese state media is not unique in evolving its narratives, or in spreading misinformation or omitting facts to cast itself in the best light possible for a global audience. In the U.S. media environment, the Fox News network has also dramatically shifted their coverage...

Interesting article and data. “While in U.S. media, prominent terms associated with Li Wenliang include ‘silenced’ and ‘authorities’, these terms are notably absent in Chinese media. Chinese media instead focus on him being an ‘ophthalmologist’ and expressing ‘condolences’.”https://twitter.com/vanessa_molter/status/1240705103322996736 …

Perhaps even more important now to learn about our deen. A good link with reliable resources!https://twitter.com/QarawiyyinProj/status/1237453604065140736 …

“We are all social creatures, but maybe Muslims are more social than most...the week-old invention of ‘social distancing’ is both alien and absurd to them.”https://twitter.com/salyounas/status/1240700082648780800 …