By Lamin Njie
Imam Abdoulie Fatty on Friday rested his sermon on coronavirus, casting possible reasons that could trigger such a crisis.
Imam Fatty said in his sermon at Masjid Zubair: “Nothing happens except on God’s knowledge and nothing would happen except on God’s instruction. God puts his servants to trial with disaster and blessing. In most instances if it is a test, it’s for us to return and re-commit to God. God said ‘We will test them with good things and bad things so that they can return to Us’.
“But God said when a bad thing comes to them [human beings] and they repent, he will overturn it. But he said some are hard-hearted and when a bad thing comes their hearts become even harder and would not prevent them from doing their things and Satan makes the things they do look attractive to them.
“A second point Muslims should also understand that leads to disasters befalling humans is when committing sin becomes widespread and God gets angry. God would then bring a punishment. God said, ‘nothing will befall you [humans] except what your hands have done’. But God says he forgives most of them. If it had been he punishes humans for whatever they do, then the world would have ended. He would punish some and forgives some.
“A hadith said, ‘when fornication becomes widespread to the extent they announce it, God would bring a disease that the previous generations have no knowledge of’. Today, fornication is being announced everywhere. It’s quite troubling. Even people nowadays announce fornication with their bodies. Because if you wear a particular kind of dress, you’re basically telling men, ‘I’m here’.
“God will not bring the world to an end until what the messenger told us on how the world is going to end. Corona is not going to end it, it’s a trumpet that will be blown and the world would end. All Muslims should believe in this. But there are signs before that trumpet will be blown. The thing that will kill all believers in one instant is a nice-scented air that will come and every believer that breathes it in would all die.”
