No talk these days rises above the Corona outbreak. This deadly virus has put the globe into a worrisome phobia, due to its speed increase and transmission from one state to another in a way that almost labeled uncontrollable disease. And after the World Health Organization’s (WTO) decision to consider Corona COVID-19 as a global epidemic, it seems that dealing with the virus has turned into an international concern and priority that needs more severe precautions and preventive standards, pending a vaccine to weeding out the disease.
Therefore, the state of panic experienced by a number of states that know a high number of infected people is justified, and it is imperative that “Corona Disease” will shift many of the daily habits in several states of the world because of the affirmed state of alertness to defy the virus. And since we are concerned in the Kingdom of Morocco, like other states that the coronavirus epidemic has reached (thirty-eight confirmed cases were recorded up to the evening of March 17, 2020), some of the recorded statistics and attitudes through Corona epidemic in Morocco and in North Africa and the Middle East, in general, need a layoff for consideration and mediation.
No doubt, When the Corona disease commences spreading in China, particularly in Wu Han city, some Islamists and Salafi wording and voices came to social media in the Islamic Arab world and also in the Kingdom of Morocco. It talks about deduced punishment and grievance maltreatment of the Uighur Muslim people at the hands of the Chinese authorities, which is an irrational perception and understanding that finds fruitful context in the ignorance and naivety of society And his eagerness to trust and admit these bias ideas and makes the moral conception driven by nonsensical, unreasonable thoughts and interpretations that are senseless or irrational from real-world aspects.
This states that such closed cogitative and thinking builds between us and the globe a fence that makes us uninvolved about what is going on around us as if we are protected and immune from these unexpected circumstances and diseases … As for the matter has turned into a universal epidemic, pointless speech issued by the closed and defeated mindset that uses biased justifications and interpretations due to setting up a conspiracy pattern because of interests.
To that extent, the voices of some Islamist experts in Arab World and Middle East countries have announced in current days, calling on Muslims to perform prayer to Allah to lift the plague {scourge}; but these experts callings overlook that they facilitate to the high spread of the Corona disease, because this prayer indicates a full gathering of large numbers of worshipers, at a time when most of the states of the globe particularly China have taken strict measures to reduce The “COVID-19” epidemic as safety and preventative standards.
Accordingly, Social media and mobile network have turned into platforms for disease analysis, interpretation, medical issue examination, and even suggest prescriptions for cure and treatment, even though specialized medical laboratories in the worldwide are still struggling against time to come up with antiserums and vaccines for this deadly COVID -19 virus. The whole world is induced to respond to the epidemic, and only some Arab Muslims face it with an unserious preventive rule, indifference, and irresponsibility throughout invisible enemy. Thus, preachers, herbalists, and quacks have become specialists in the Corona epidemic at a time when doctors and scientists and pharmaceutical researchers are supposed to be more present than others in this pandemic situation.
Yet, The deterioration of our social life reality is inseparable from this pandemic crisis of the mindset, which unworkable long ago. And in no way can be changed or achieved only except through a real alternative perception and consciousness in building scientific discourse and rational thinking. While Western experiences have proven that the unification of scientific building blocks in the mindsets is the backer of sending moral concepts and thought in proper manners. Human history is proved the connection of concepts of thought and behavior, but it still a matter of human nature in terms of moral presence in people’s conscience. Therefore, well-being needs a collective desire to work together preventing pandemic COVID -19 Coronavirus.
Our crisis value is belonged to our being ruled by a metaphysical standard for morality and conscious, that is, our thoughts, conceptions, and actions are guided by metaphysical incentives; which means the subordination of person to forces he cannot resist, that is, the human being is governed by a specific system of the world that is usually expressed in the sense of ” divine or destiny “, and it results from moral Interpretations and approaches. As J.R.R. Tolkien points out “A divine ‘punishment’ is also a divine ‘gift’ if accepted, since its object is the ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make ‘punishments’ (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained”.
Additionally, It also implicates that the meaning of a person is determined so far by what surrounds him, not by himself. Thus, The lack of moral responsibility and the dumping of it on the system of the universe like luck, faith, or conspiracy in different aspects; rational actions and manners are influencing our choices and determinations. Thus, we observe a number of practices that perpetuate this fact, such as combining natural phenomena with divine punishment or spiritual favor.
Due to this close mindset, we are not astonished by some of the outputs that describe the Corona epidemic as “a Divine Punishment”, and that it is a scourge and a message from God because of peoples sins, misdeed or immorality because the loss is the one that generates such illogical interpretations and understandings that we hear frequently whenever we observe natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, and floods. Devotion to the speech of “divine punishment” indicates an ideological concept of religion that would maintain a culture of abandonment or “Giving up” and does not allow the use of critical thinking that gains over science and rationality and deny illusion and myth.
It can be perceived that first, if we and the entire globe are designate to worry about the future in light of the rising severity of the epidemic, then, this concern should be multiplied by us in the sense of the dominance of deception thinking that positioned us beyond the history because the victory of “person” or well-being over “Corona Virus” will only come with specialized science and advanced medical laboratories. Second, We can only pray for Western well -trained doctors and well scientific research scholars to help and reconcile as long as our minds manage their powerlessness by miracles.
To sum up, it is fully true that the Corona epidemic virus becomes a worldwide enemy due to the fact that COVID-19 doesn’t respect any borders in the current days. Northern African and Arab countries must actively cooperate and share true inputs with the World Health Organization and its neighboring countries in order to prevent the hasty of the Coronavirus which is characterized as an invisible pandemic foe.
