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SINGAPORE – Muslims here have been urged by Singapore’s highest Islamic authority to avoid large religious gatherings overseas in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus and not endanger others.
In a post on the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) Facebook page on Thursday (March 19), Mufti Nazirudin Mohd Nasir said that Muslims here should “play (their) part” and not attend such gatherings, which have caused widespread infection of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“I hear that some foreign religious organisers say that they fear God more than viruses and therefore, they continue with gatherings,” said Dr Nazirudin.
“This is not the time to be senseless and irresponsible. I would like to be absolutely clear.”
From Feb 27 to March 1, more than 16,000 devotees had gathered at the Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling in Kuala Lumpur.
This gathering, believed to be for followers of the Tablighi Jama’at, a Muslim missionary movement, has since turned into a large cluster after hundreds of its attendees were infected with the Covid-19 virus.
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