Mexico City are these random events?

[muslimda3ee]

:salam2:

First let me start off, I AM NO SCHOLAR, just a muslim. So if there is any errors or wrong ideas from what I say it is from me and not Islam.

The news lately, this swine flu epidemic, is more found in Mexico City. What the people did is remove themselves from the public to try to avoid getting the disease. Safe humble home you may say.

Well, there was a major earthquake that same area today. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090427-714613.html
I guess you can't be too safe. They gathered on the streets in this event.

subhanAllah, may Allah not punish us this way. And guide us to the straight path.

:wasalam:

[muslimda3ee]

:salam2:

some hadith about what to do in an epidemic as a muslim would be helpful. There was one I kinda of remember where Umar ra, addressed a situation where they were going to enter a town who was going through a plague.

but I can't remember it completely.

:wasalam:

[Hard Rock Moslem]

I found this hadith by Bukhari but not sure how to interpret it:

Narration by Abdullah bin Abbas r.a.

'Umar bin Al-Khattab departed for Sham and when he reached Sargh, the commanders of the (Muslim) army, Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah and his companions met him and told him that an epidemic had broken out in Sham. 'Umar said, "Call for me the early emigrants." So 'Umar called them, consulted them and informed them that an epidemic had broken out in Sham. Those people differed in their opinions. Some of them said, "We have come out for a purpose and we do not think that it is proper to give it up," while others said (to 'Umar), "You have along with you. other people and the companions of Allah's Apostle so do not advise that we take them to this epidemic." 'Umar said to them, "Leave me now." Then he said, "Call the Ansar for me." I called them and he consulted them and they followed the way of the emigrants and differed as they did. He then said to them, Leave me now," and added, "Call for me the old people of Quraish who emigrated in the year of the Conquest of Mecca." I called them and they gave a unanimous opinion saying, "We advise that you should return with the people and do not take them to that (place) of epidemic." So 'Umar made an announcement, "I will ride back to Medina in the morning, so you should do the same." Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah said (to 'Umar), "Are you running away from what Allah had ordained?" 'Umar said, "Would that someone else had said such a thing, O Abu 'Ubaida! Yes, we are running from what Allah had ordained to what Allah has ordained. Don't you agree that if you had camels that went down a valley having two places, one green and the other dry, you would graze them on the green one only if Allah had ordained that, and you would graze them on the dry one only if Allah had ordained that?" At that time 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf, who had been absent because of some job, came and said, "I have some knowledge about this. I have heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'If you hear about it (an outbreak of plague) in a land, do not go to it; but if plague breaks out in a country where you are staying, do not run away from it.' " 'Umar thanked Allah and returned to Medina.

Sahih Bukhari.

[firdaus3]

even i have heard about the same hadith.