A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
There is no one who can turn back the punishment of Allah.
When Allah decrees punishment and retribution,
there is no one who can avert His decree.
The criminal transgressors do not perceive from where the punishment comes upon them,
nor do they have any knowledge of the hosts of Allah.
“We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals.” (74:31)
Intelligence agencies are unaware of them,
and surveillance devices cannot detect them.
For the host may be a violent wind,
or a devastating earthquake,
or a drowning tsunami,
or a lethal epidemic and plague.
The matter of the coronavirus is not hidden from us.
Or it may be something else, the nature of which is known only to Allah.
A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.