Viruses and Plague in Al-Azhar’s Tafsir: Correlation of Covid-19 Discovery with Alquran Verses

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10.2991/assehr.k.220708.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Virus; Plague; Hamka; Tafsir Al-Azhar; Covid-19

Abstract

Viruses are the smallest invisible creatures that Allah Swt. creates to test people. The creation of the virus is none other than Allah Swt. wants to show the worship of mankind and distinguish between one who believes and one who is unbeliever. Viruses that infect only part of humans are not a problem. But if the virus is the majority of the population of the country comes a new problem. The virus that almost affected the entire country is referred to as an outbreak. This plague is not actually the first event to befall mankind. The plague has been experienced by the previous people whose stories we can read through the Qur’an which Allah Swt. gave. Seeing the plague that befell the previous people caused by a small creature named the virus experienced again by the community in this modern era. The virus is Covid-19, which was first discovered in Wuhan, China. The virus spread for a short time and claimed many lives. This virus can be a punishment, a test of patience or other meaning. Seeing the phenomenon is interesting to discuss through a modern interpretation, patterned adabi ijtima’i (social society), with the method of tahliliy (analysis) interpretation through a work of muffasir who wrote his interpretation in a situation of slanderous riots in the cold of iron bars. The interpretation is the tafsir of Al-Azhar by Prof. Dr. Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (Hamka). Data sources collected documentatively. This type of research is literature with an interpretation approach. The analysis is descriptively analytical. The virus in al-Azhar’s commentary is described as being smaller than a mosquito and the plague is explained through the great events that befell the earlier people including Tsamud people, Prophet Ayyub, the Children of Israel, and Abrahah and his army who will attack the Kaaba.

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AU  - Kuswardani Dyah Ayu Kusumaningrum
AU  - Alfiyatul Azizah
AU  - Yeti Dahliana
AU  - Ahmad Nurrohim
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/25
TI  - Viruses and Plague in Al-Azhar’s Tafsir: Correlation of Covid-19 Discovery with Alquran Verses
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Islamic and Muhammadiyah Studies (ICIMS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 89
EP  - 97
SN  - 2352-5398
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