The veracity of this claim would depend on only non-Muslims getting infected, but if Muslims are infected, Farrokh Sekaleshfar will just say they weren’t sufficiently submissive to Allah. In any case, the idea that unbelievers should suffer in this world is a basic underlying assumption of jihad activity.
“Iran-Based Scholar Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar: COVID-19 Is a Blessing, an Agent of Allah Similar to the Sands That Foiled the American Hostage Rescue Attempt in 1979,” MEMRI, March 28, 2020:
Manchester-born Iran-based scholar Dr. Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar, who had delivered a lecture about homosexuality in Orlando a few weeks prior to the Pulse nightclub massacre and who has previously said that homosexuals should be “gotten rid of,” said in a video that was uploaded to the Islamic Pulse YouTube channel on March 28, 2020 that the coronavirus is ultimately a good thing, since everything Allah has created is a blessing, and that this is true even if the coronavirus is man-made. He went on to say that during the Iranian hostage crisis, when he said Iranian students had confirmed their suspicions that the American embassy in Tehran had been a “network of espionage,” Imam Khomeini had said that the desert sands had served as agents of Allah when they caused the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the American attempt to rescue the hostages. Sheikh Sekaleshfar said that the coronavirus is similarly an agent of Allah, and he told a brief story in which Zaynab, the daughter of Ali, had said that even the spectacle of violence and stabbings that she witnessed in Karbala had been beautiful because it was all part of Allah’s creation. Weeks before the June 2016 shooting by Omar Mateen at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, that left 49 clubgoers dead, Sheikh Sekaleshfar had delivered a sermon titled “How to Deal with the Phenomenon of Homosexuality” at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, a suburb of Orlando. In a 2013 sermon at University of Michigan, Sheikh Sekaleshfar had also said that the Islamic punishment for homosexuality is death and that people should “get rid of” homosexuals out of compassion. For more from Islamic Pulse, see MEMRI TV Clip No. 6944. Islamic Pulse is a media company based in Qom, Iran.
mortimer says
Mohammed, the false prophet of Islam, was a complete FATALIST. Whatever Allah decrees is right, so disease is ‘right’. When non-Muslims die of disease, they are ‘punished’, but when Muslims die of disease, Allah ‘blesses’ them with eternal sex slaves in paradise. No Muslims actually go to ‘heaven’ where Allah lives beyond all contact with humans. Allah lives there with the eternal Koran, his partner, and the sun sits all night under the hot throne of Allah supported by four sunburnt angels.
Getting back to the FATALISM … Allah is the source of ALL disease and Mohammed sez NO disease is ‘transitive’ or contagious. Islamic science.
Dr. Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar ‘knows’ that the hadiths are more authoritative than modern medical science.
That is why many Muslims will leave Islam as a result of his gross stupidity and that of other mullahs.
FYI says
muhammed was a False prophet according to..
1]The koran
koran 69:44-46 a false prophet will have his throat {Aorta}cut
Sahih Bukhari 4428 “I feel as if my Aorta is being cut”: a statement that could only come from someone who suspected himself to be .. a false prophet.
Also:muhammed was NOT from the “Children of Israel” koran 45:16:
“WE gave the children the Scripture and the command and the PROPHETHOOD”:allah’s criterion of who had the right to be a prophet.
All Biblical prophets satisfy koraan 45:16.muhammed doesn’t..
{See on You Tube acts17 apologetics who killed muhammed?}
2]The Bible
“But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so,he must die for it,and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods”
Deuteronomy 18:20
muhammed preached his al LAH ,an ARAB god;al LAH is NOT the YHWH of the Bible.
{in fact in the koran it seems its author forgot the name of God calling him allah and not YHWH}
3]His silly end time prophecies{the world would be taken over by ROMANS and end within 100 years of his demise}
{see on You Tube Apostate Prophet muhammed’s failed Endtime prophecy}
4]By his OWN admission
“I have fabricated things against God and attributed to him things he has not said”
Al tabari 6:111
5]For a reason muslims don’t get:Prophecy is a gift from God,not something you have on your own and it comes from the Holy Spirit{‘the HELPER’}
But in islam there is no “Holy Spirit”:muhammed couldn’t have had access to the source of True Prophecy as ALL Biblical prophets had.
6]the life of muhammed is a life lived in violation of every known commandment of God given in the Bible:the 2 chief ones and Exodus 20 Decalogue.
No TRUE prophet lives such an immoral sinful life:the polygamy,murdering the Jews{“the Children of Israel” Abu Dawud 4390} bearing FALSE WITNESS etc
Nora Armenti says
Thank you for that information. I believe the Bible. I believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. I believe the father sent him to die and be crucified on the cross for our sins. And we are of a sinful nature.
Rufolino says
People are made in the image of God and our essence is therefore wonderful.
(In life, we are not human beings undergoing a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings, undergoing a human experience.)
DazzleMe says
I’m with you exactly, thank you, Nora!
Ned Kelly says
I think he is right, as Allah is satan…”Muslim cleric says coronavirus is an agent of Allah”.
mortimer says
MOHAMMED SAYS NO DISEASE IS CONTAGIOUS … ALLAH SENDS IT.
“AbuHuraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: There is NO TRANSITIVE disease, no divination, but I like good words.”
Sahih Muslim 2223c; Book89, Hadith 154
Fahada: He (Allah) guided the livestock (animals) for grazing, etc.
Sahih Bukhari
6619. Narrated Aishah: I asked Allah’s Messenger about the PLAGUE. He told me that it was a Punishment sent by Allah on whom he wished, and Allah made it a source of MERCY for the believers, for if one in the time of an epidemic plague stays in his country patiently hoping for Allahs Reward and believing that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, he will get the reward of a martyr.”
Sahih Bukhari; Book of Fighting fo rthe Cause of Allah (Jihaad)
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet (?) said, “Plague is the cause of martyrdom of every Muslim (who dies because of it).
Sahih Bukhari : Sahih al-Bukhari 6974
Book of Tricks Book 90, Hadith 21
Chapter: Playing tricks to run from the disease of plague
(Chapter 13) ??? ??? ???????? ???? ????????????? ??? ?????????? ???? ???????????
Narrated ‘Amir bin Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas:
That he heard Usama bin Zaid speaking to Sa`d, saying, “Allah’s Messenger (?) mentioned the plague and said, ‘It is a means of punishment with which some nations were punished and some of it has remained, and it appears now and then. So whoever hears that there is an outbreak of plague in some land, he should not go to that land, and if the plague breaks out in the land where one is already present, one should not run away from that land, escaping from the plague.”
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Riyad as-Slihin – The Book of Miscellany Book 1, Hadith 33
‘Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported:
I asked the Messenger of Allah (?) about PESTILENCE (plague) and he said, “It is a punishment which Allah sends upon whomsoever He wills, but Allah has made it as a MERCY to the believers. Anyone who remains in a town which is plagued with pestilence maintaining patience expecting the reward from Allah, and knowing that nothing will befall him other than what Allah has foreordained for him, he would receive a reward of Shaheed”.
[Al-Bukhari].
CONCLUSION: GET SICK AND DIE … RECEIVE 72 VIRGINS.
Michael Copeland says
“everything Allah has created is a blessing” especially including pig and dog.
Antiislamicman says
Proves my point that Islam is only for the most stupid.
DazzleMe says
+1
FYI says
“Iran based scholar..”:
You had me at “scholar”.
Regarding islamic “scholarship”:For 1,400 years of islamic studies,one egregious error in the “perfect” koran{among many others} seems to have been missed by the “scholars” of islam.
koran 5:116;allah’s mistaken belief that MARY is part of the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity.
{allah,muslim “Jesus” and MARY:the islamic misunderstanding of the MONOTHEISTIC Theology of the Trinity.allah thinks it is three separate gods in a polytheism}
Given that allah tells muhmmed to “question those who read the scripture that was before thee”{koran 10:94},that is,the BIBLE{a book allah confirms as TRUE koran 3:3} one would imagine that had the “scholars” of islam done this they would have seen that koran 5:116 is Theologically wrong:MARY is not in any way associated with the Trinity.
Thus they might have noticed that the koran is in error IF they had bothered to follow allah’s suggestion in koran 10:94.
1,400 years of islamic “scholarship”…and the “scholars” of islam MISSED that:they also missed the Holy Spirit,the Golden Rule,the essential role given to the Jews,the 2 chief commandments{#1Deut 6:4-9,#2 Lev19:18} all of which are in the BIBLE but MISSING in the koran.
1,400 years they had,1,400 years of islamic “scholarship”…….
Rarely says
I suppose it never crossed these minds of these great “scholars” that if allah gave the World the coronavirus he also gave the World the following:
(1) Medical researchers with excellent analytical minds to provide solutions for preventing the spread of the virus and, hopefully, finding a cure,
(2) Medical doctors and nurses skilled at applying the solutions, and
(3) Brains for the rest of us to be used to make use of (1) and (2).
tim gallagher says
As other commenters have noted, this attitude by this “scholar” is totally fatalistic. That story, included in the report above, about Zaynab saying that the bloodshed and violence she witnessed was “beautiful” (what a bizarre and evil attitude) because, hey man, it’s all Allah’s beautiful work, his creation. As a Christian, I was thinking how different the Christian view is to this repulsive Muslim fatalism. It seems that the Muslim fatalist looks at this world we live in, with all its violence and problems, and says, well, this is all Allah’s will and it’s all wonderful, it’s what a Christian might say the Garden of Eden was like, before mankind somehow stuffed things up. The Christian attitude would be that there once was a Garden of Eden (but it didn’t include violence such as Zaynab witnessed, etc), but that this world we now live in is flawed, but we can make some effort to improve it. I don’t think all that many Muslims would be so extremely fatalistic, because why would a human being bother to do anything? If it’s all Allah’s will and all wonderful, then why do anything? You may as well just sit under a tree and watch whatever allah wills (such as coronavirus) unfold, sort of like a stoned, listless hippie type. But then, huge numbers of Muslims aren’t passive, they are very prone to violence. Islam certainly produces some truly bizarre and repulsive attitudes to life.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric says coronavirus is a blessing, an agent of Allah
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I suppose this pious barbarian will have to duke it out with coreligionists who are claiming that the Coronavirus was created by the Chinese, Americans, or Israelis in order to harm Muslims, and those who claim that the disease doesn’t exist at all but was just made up by Infidels who don’t want Muslims to pray…
While these claims are all contradictory, they are all stupid and vicious. No surprise there…
OLD GUY says
Islamic cleric says C-19 is a blessing from Allah. Thats like me saying a nuke over islamic countries is like a blessing from God.
Neither God or Allah had anything to do with China’s unleashing C-19 on the world. China either intentionally produced C-19 as a weapon that either intentionally or unintentionally got out of their bio-weapon labs. Or somehow in nature this C-19 virus jumped to humans in China and they withheld information to save face and allowed it to spread world wide.
I somehow don’t think the muslim/islamic people will see this as a blessing from Allah when it devastates their populations. Big question is will they continue to follow their imams and clerics that take them down this road?
revereridesagain says
Never trust a man who wears a tornado on his head and believes in invisible virgin hookers as a heavenly reward for a martyr’s death. He probably harbors some other pretty weird ideas as well.
DazzleMe says
Very good, thanks revere rides again!!
DazzleMe says
I just really hope it’s a blessing for him (sarcasm)!