By Naseerah Nanabhai 07:04:2020 The coronavirus is thought to spread largely via person-to-person contact, but it can live on surfaces as well. Contaminated objects may transmit the virus if someone touches that object, picking up virus particles from the surface, and then touches their mouth, nose or eyes, according to the CDC. Some people may transmit the virus even when they don't have symptoms. Therefore, it is important to take precautions when...

  By Annisa Essack 07:04:2020 The Coronavirus is a unique and unprecedented phenomenon, and, in its wake, it has brought about the rapid spread of rumours and false information. The bombardment of information has brought with mistrust and confusion as many are no longer able to sift the truth from the halt truths, or the vital information from theories of conspiracy. Talking to Mufti Moosagie and Ml. Ravat on the Social Programme was Ml. Ebrahim...

  By Naseerah Nanabhai 02:04:2020 Moulana Suaimaan Ravat and Mufti Yusuf Moosagie recently explored this topic. “It is part of the grandee of Allah (SWT) that one honours the elderly. We should have mercy on the elderly and Islam has given them a great status, that we appreciate.” Mufti Moosagie explained. Moulana Ravat mentioned that “there is a perception, that as people get older they become more difficult and unreasonable; often they become...

Umm Muhammed Umar     02.04.20 South Africa and much of the world is currently in lockdown, and ‘normal’ life has changed for everyone, overnight.  Expecting a lockdown in the United States to be extended, freelance writer, Brooke Anderson posed six (refreshing) “Daily Quarantine Questions” to help her ‘structure’ her days. She reminds us also, that it is a privilege to even be safely sheltered at home and asking these questions.   What am I grateful...

  Faizel Patel - 2/04/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)   As South Africa nears the halfway mark of the 21-day lockdown imposed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, social distancing, quarantine and self-isolating; all these ‘restrictions’ means we have been, and will continue to, spend a lot of time at home. While many of you have completed all the ‘intelligent’ activities that you think you should be doing such as...