“HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOSE WHO BEING IN THOUSANDS, LEFT THEIR HOMES TO ESCAPE DEATH? SO TO THEM ALLAH SAID, “BE DEAD.” THEN HE RAISED THEM ALIVE. SURELY, ALLAH IS ALL-GRACIOUS TO PEOPLE, BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE NOT GRATEFUL.” (SURAH AL-BAQARAH: 243)

Part 2

The other injunction that can be derived from this verse is that it is not permissible to run away from an area affected by plague, or similar such epidemic, to another area. In addition to this, as said by the Holy Prophet ﷺ, it is not correct for people from other places to go where the plague has spread. It is narrated in Hadith that:

"Allah Almighty has, through this disease (plague), punished people who were before you. So, when you hear about it spreading in a certain area, do not go there; and if it spreads in an area where you already are, do not go out escaping from it." (Bukhari and Muslim and Ibn Kathir)

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From Ma’ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE