As each day passes, more and more government attempts to mislead the public are exposed, whether in terms of their past neglect, current preparations, testing and mortality statistics, or future plans. From utter neglect at the beginning, continuing manipulation of the health services’ vital statistics and scientific advice, to the forces driving for a return to normality and proposed mass surveillance of the population’s health and social interactions, hardly any…

Responding to the coronavirus pandemic requires a comprehensive system of care working at all levels, where the wellbeing of all of the people is the primary concern. The Islamic way of life is well equipped to take care of the affairs of the people, with its beliefs and values, and systems that are built upon them.

The nationalist borders that are promoted and defended by the capitalist governments lead to great suffering by the people. Without the Westphalian borders, the people would not divide themselves so rigidly, such that a man can be born on one side into immense privilege, while on the other side his brother could be poverty stricken and die of hunger.

The Appeals Court in England has declared that a nikah with hundreds of witnesses cannot be considered a marriage; therefore, in the case of divorce the spouses have no rights and no legal protection. This is the failure of the secular state, which cannot accommodate people of different values and faiths. On the one hand, it promotes promiscuity as a modern liberal right, while denying separating couples, who have not…