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| Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif |
The Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, commented, on his Facebook page, on the circulating scene of the refusal to bury a doctor who died from coronavirus infection, saying: “A scene far from ethics, humanity and religion. A person becomes hungry and full of neighbor, dies and does not find someone to bury him.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb continued: "Our humanity obligated everyone to commit to human solidarity, by lifting the stigma from the disease, ensuring the affected people, honoring those who died quickly, burying them and praying for them."
The Al-Azhar Global Center for Electronic Fatwa said that bullying against Corona victims is a prohibited and prohibited behavior, adding: He exalted Islam from the value of peace, instructed his followers to come to terms with all beautiful goodness, and finish all obscene obscurity, until peace prevailed in all the country, The believer's tongue and hand.
He continued: It is not surprising - if this was the message of Islam - that the heaviest thing in the balance of the believer on the Day of Resurrection is his good manners, he said «:“ The heaviest thing is in the balance of the believer on the Day of Resurrection, the goodness of God. ”
Al-Azhar Center confirmed to the fatwa that bullying is one of the rejected behaviors that contradicts the values of peace and good morals in the law of Islam.
Bullying for those who do not know it is: a form of derogation, victimization, and satire directed at an individual or group, and which negatively affects their health and psychological well-being - this in general - and it is undoubtedly a disgraceful behavior.
This behavior becomes more criminal and heinous if a person is treated with him simply because he suffers from a disease that he did not choose for himself.
Islam prohibited hurting and assaulting, even with a word or a look. The God said: {..and do not transgress that God does not like the aggressors} [Al-Baqarah: 190], and our master, the Messenger of God, said: “no harm, no foul.” sonan ebn maga
The harm that Islam has directed to remove is not only physical, but also - as well - to remove the psychological damage that may be more severe and distant from the physical.
And if Islam had called upon the Muslim to adopt safety reasons, and to follow the instructions for prevention when treating a patient with an infectious disease, he said in that ﷺ: “escape from leper,like escape from the lion.” [Sahih Al-Bukhari].
At the same time, he called for the patient’s mental health to be preserved, so he said ﷺ In the case of leprosy also - an infectious disease -: “Do not perpetuate looking at the lepers” [Sunan Ibn Majah]; In order not to cause harm to the patient with your gaze, there is no doubt that attention is paid to the treatment of the patient, and does not diminish him with a word or a high moral character.
He also called on Islam to respect the human being and honor them healthy and sick, alive and dead. The God said: “And He has honored us the children of Adam ..” [Al-Israa: 70].
He also called for the treatment of patients, and treat them, and to suffer the pain; he said ﷺ: «Like the believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion like the body; if the member complained to falter, the rest of the body to ensure a fever» [agreed].
Based on all of the above, the Al-Azhar Global Center for Electronic Fatwa affirms that coronavirus infection is not a sin or sin that the infected person must hide from people; so that he does not lend, but rather a disease like any disease, and there is no deficiency in it, and all people are vulnerable to infection, and the results of concealment It is disastrous to get infected by it.
A fatwa is forbidden to harm the injured person, or to offend him, even with a view, and that human beings must be honored in their lives and after their death.
And it calls for the necessity of providing psychological support to all those afflicted by Coruna and their families, and for all the people of the country to come together to carry out their duty each in its field and in a way that it is possible for our beloved Egypt to overcome this crisis in peace and safety, God willing.