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In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Very-Merciful.
Al-Salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatuAllāh! Greetings of peace and Allah’s infinite mercy!
We pray and hope you are in the best of spiritual and physical health. The impact of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is deeply concerning to everyone within the Muslim community. Local scholars, leaders, and health experts are following the situation as closely as possible and keeping a close watch on the developments related to its spread. This document offers a series of recommendations for Muslim institutions in the Chicagoland area based on the deliberations of a body of Islamic jurists, community leaders, medical practitioners and academics, and, most importantly, infectious disease experts.
Al-Salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatuAllāh! Greetings of peace and Allah’s infinite mercy!
We pray and hope you are in the best of spiritual and physical health. The impact of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is deeply concerning to everyone within the Muslim community. Local scholars, leaders, and health experts are following the situation as closely as possible and keeping a close watch on the developments related to its spread. This document offers a series of recommendations for Muslim institutions in the Chicagoland area based on the deliberations of a body of Islamic jurists, community leaders, medical practitioners and academics, and, most importantly, infectious disease experts.
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At the same time, in a situation as complex as that of the current COVID-19 crisis, in which general harm is highly probable, it is admittedly fair to highlight that the general principle at play is that of precaution (iḥtiyāt). Due to the nature of the disease, determining who is infected with COVID-19 and what dispensations and obligations apply to them is not ascertainable with a high degree of certainty. Best policy recommendations on how to deal with the disease are therefore informed by the dominant assumptions of health experts along with Muslim jurisconsults.
