Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic is a contemporary event that has had its effects on humans in various aspects of life, which requires Sharia scholars to apply all their efforts to clarify its issues and rulings related to it, and to emphasize the precedence of Islam and its validity for every time and place for prevention and elimination of the epidemic, by activating the rules related to the pandemic, and extracting the new issues rules depending on the Quran and the teaching of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). This research aims to study the most important foundations and legal means to confront and prevent the pandemic, either in belief, worship, economics, entertainment, education, or health, with an explanation of the legal components of mental health effects on individual, family, and society, in the event of the ban during the epidemic. The researcher’s substantial results are the importance of educating Muslims about jurisprudence and belief provisions in the event of the epidemic, the need to make use of contemporary social media, the necessity of taking legal Excuses to confront the epidemic and preventing its spread, obeying the guardian and those who take his place in adhering to the ban, and the prohibition of harming oneself and people by violating the ban laws. Spreading the epidemic intentionally or unintentionally, and the legality of zakat at the time of the epidemic to pay for people’s needs and the permissibility of paying it before its time. There are other recommendations that are found through the research.

Keywords: Legal foundations, confronting Corona, psychological and physical health, worship and Corona.