Is it justified to visit religious sites when a disease is contagious?

Just as reason tells us to avoid places where disease may take hold, it also tells us to draw near to centres of healing. Reason also tells us:

Do not neglect medicine!

Do not turn away from the means of treatment or from ways to hasten recovery!

Trust your physician and follow their instructions fully and faithfully!

Our true physicians are God, the One and Only, His messengers, and His saints. Any action contrary to the guidance of these true physicians is a kind of flight from health and a move towards illness. Who could surpass God, His messengers, and His saints in healing, or offer instructions more beneficial than theirs?

Who can receive God’s provision without God? Who can find God’s healing without God???!!!!

The holy shrines are the purest, cleanest, and most hygienic of places. To keep away from them is to keep away from health. These are places where angels fly and divine mercy pours down—among the safest places, and the most magnificent settings in which to receive God’s medicine and healing.

The enemies of religion, the Quran, and the Household of the Prophet are exploiting this opportunity to act maliciously and drive believers away from the community of the Two Weighty Things. We must remain vigilant and thwart their evil intentions.

In every respect—spiritually as well as physically—believers are the purest, cleanest, and most hygienic members of society, for purity, cleanliness, and freshness are among their most fundamental qualities.

Believers regard purity, cleanliness, and ritual cleanliness as means of drawing near to God, and never neglect them. They also continually adorn themselves with lawful beauty and fragrance. From believers, others receive only beauty, well-being, health, and joy. So we must not turn away from what is good.

Hygiene, cleanliness, and purity are essential in all circumstances, whether ordinary or critical. A true believer observes every aspect of hygiene in every situation and honours sacred places through both outward and inward purity.

Believers bring purity and health to society. Maintaining family ties is a way for believers and loved ones to share medicine and healing. It is a remedy blended with affection and love, made through the joining of hearts and souls. Maintaining family ties and visiting the sick, too, have their own proper etiquette; observing it brings people the greatest benefits and the most effective remedy.

If mosques are left empty, the danger of calamity is real. Believers are the safeguard of the earth. If they close the centres where faith wells up, calamity and disaster will engulf human lives like a flood.

The medicine of the Two Weighty Things—the medicine of the Quran and the Household—is the highest form of healing. It delivers medicine and treatment through the simplest and most unusual means. The sublime secrets of this sacred medicine have yet to be discovered by the world. The ignorant masses, hostile to it, are enemies of their own ignorance: they foolishly wage war on what they know nothing about.

The First Physician is He who, were He to command a blazing fire not to burn, would make it cool and safe; and were He to issue the same command to a microbe or virus, that very cause of illness would become a healing remedy. So let us rise to know the greatness of God Almighty, honour His religion and commandments, and not raise our voices above those of God’s messengers.

We remember that medicine takes effect only when our all-powerful Creator commands healing.