Omar Suleiman - The Plague that Killed Sahaba and the Coronavirus

About this lecture

In this special lecture, Sheikh Omar Suleiman explores the historical and spiritual dimensions of the first major plague to strike the Muslim ummah — Ta'un 'Amwas of 639 CE — drawing powerful parallels with the coronavirus pandemic. He covers the Prophet's ﷺ prophetic hadith on plague as both punishment and mercy, the Islamic principle of quarantine, and the stories of great Sahabah like Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah and Mu'adh ibn Jabal who died as martyrs in that plague. The lecture concludes with a call to spiritual urgency, reminding believers that tawakkul in Allah must be paired with practical responsibility, and that the inevitability of death should drive us away from procrastination in obedience to Allah.