Every action has a reaction. So, can we say that the circumstances we are going through today are the reactions of our deeds or it’s just a threat we are facing? I am talking about COVID-19.

Is it really the result of our own deeds or any natural disaster that the Almighty has sent on us to check the faith of His mankind?

Most people say that this viral infection is only history repeating itself as in Great Plague of Marseille occurred in France in 1720 and thousands of people perished.

After that, almost a century later, in 1817, the cholera pandemic, though previously restricted, began in Bengal, and then spread across India by 1820. In the very next century, between 1918-1920, the Spanish flu (also known as the 1918 flu pandemic) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic.

And now, in 2020, the coronavirus is a threat to the whole world.

Here I would highlight the reality that whatever the condition is today, it’s only just because of us. We have harmed this planet, caused global warming and destroyed animals and trees.

All the other creatures on earth are also equal to us and the land on which we are living is more powerful than us. We don’t think about these things before messing with nature, which is unbearable to other creatures. We only work for our interests, neglecting the results that others may have to bear.

However, when nature reaches the peak of its tolerance, then it begins to seek revenge from mankind for all that has been done to harm its natural balance. Covid-19 is the reaction of our activities against the laws of nature.

If still we don’t understand the reality and continue to remain blind, there is no question that mankind will suffer more than this and not millions, but billions of people will suffer the revenge and at the end there will be no sign of humanity.

For now, it’s only the threat that we should acknowledge and start working with nature, otherwise this earth can show many more disasters much greater than Covid-19.

Published in Dawn, Young World, April 11th, 2020