When Faith Was Tested by the Coronavirus Pandemic
In this life here below, nothing happens without the manifestation of divine purpose. Indeed, in the Holy Koran, God says this:
No evil shall befall the earth or your people, which is not recorded in a Book before We created it.
(IRON /N°57, V.22)
At the beginning of 2020, the world witnessed a pandemic called the Coronavirus or Covid 19 which, starting in China, spread like wildfire across the globe, sparing virtually no country and sadly reminding us of previous pandemics such as the Black Death of the 14th century and the Spanish flu of 1918. This pandemic was truly an ordeal, affecting not only public health, the economy, society and states, but also people’s faith and convictions. And it’s to this last point that I’d like to turn in this article. Indeed, when confronted with an ordeal, people do not all react in the same way, and the Coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
