An Islamic Estimate of the Government Procedures in Countering COVID-19 Pandemic

The research aims to review the most important procedures taken by governments in order to counter the Covid-19 pandemic, and estimate those procedures depending on sharia principles and provisions, within sharia objectives “Al-Maqased”. The research contains the following topics: Quarantine, Isolate infected people, curfew, social distancing, travel bans, and providing subsidies and exemptions to affected people. The research also included an explanation of the role of the social solidarity system in Islam in countering the epidemic, and reducing its damages. The research concluded that the previous procedures are accepted in Islamic Sharia, and have origins in Islamic legislation, And that the Islamic social solidarity system has a great role in fixing the consequences of the pandemic, and reducing its severity, through its various institutions, on top of which are Zakat and Waqf as the most important institutions of this syste