London is on lockdown due to a new virus that has infected a family member of mine's and the whole place is a ghost town. What's going on? Is this just the beginning of what's to come?
00:00:00.000You can see these measures are in place, so the same thing doesn't happen what happened in 1918 or 1919.
00:00:07.000You can see this is Oxford Street, and Oxford Street is on lockdown. Look at that.
00:00:18.000This journey, this road that I travel on, it all seems crazy, over the years, I picked up thousands of tagalongs, inspired by my story, from a juvenile, when my clothes had holes in the, and my afro was picky, to them 90s, Moschino and Versace, no laces in Arachis, new millennium.
00:00:46.000So, first day of partial lockdown of the UK, found out that my auntie, who's got underlying health conditions, both physical and mental, has got the virus, she tested positive to it, she's at a hospital.
00:01:07.000But I'm going to go about, throughout my day, through London, and show you guys what's exactly going on, the streets, etc.
00:01:16.000And reminders we're going to share along the way, inshaAllah. So yeah, let's see how the day goes.
00:01:21.000As we can see, I had to come out, to get some stuff, for the house, a few stuff, but you can see that it is slowly, the first day of the lockdown, you can see that it's becoming like a ghost town.
00:01:43.000So, less and less people on the streets, drastically, all the restaurants are closed, all of them are closed, as you can see, going past green lanes.
00:01:54.000And it's surreal, it's like you're in a movie. It's like you're in a movie. It's like, who would have thought, or expected, the Western world, Europe, the superpowers, to all of a sudden, within a matter of month, one month, couple of weeks, the whole place is on absolute lockdown.
00:02:21.000And is it just the beginning? And obviously, these measures are in place, so the same thing doesn't happen, what happened in 1918 or 1919, which was called the Spanish Flu, which some, well, Spain kind of declined, even though there was a lot of deaths there.
00:02:39.000That's one of the reasons why historians say it's called the Spanish Flu, but there's no evidence that it originated from there, and some people say because of, you know, World War I, even though it caused more deaths than World War I, about 50 to 100 million people are expected to have died from that, people bleeding from their nose and ears.
00:02:56.340Because that was, that was some kind of next level virus, which mutated and was spreading like wildfire.
00:03:04.540You can see everywhere, all shops are closed, everywhere, that there is a sign going on.
00:03:11.640This is to let us know, and I've always wondered, you know, I would do a lot of charity projects on Iman Channel, where we raise funds for Palestine, for Syria, for Rohingya, you name it, you know, for Ghana, for all these places.
00:03:29.040And I've always wondered, I always thought to myself, you know what, like we are just too selfish, we have become too selfish, all we care about is our own lifestyles, increasing our own lifestyle, how could we have better lifestyles, comfort, comfort, comfort.
00:03:46.040And I'm not saying this just because, you know, I'm some kind of a peer, you know, I have this, but I'm just, I would think to myself, you know what, like, I won't be surprised if Allah was about to teach us a punishment, and it was to teach us a lesson.
00:03:58.020But I always wondered, how would that be? Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has his sunnah, Allah has his way of doing things, but I always thought, what would it be?
00:04:07.960Would there be like a war in the UK, or Europe, World War 3, and then we will realise what the Syrian, the Palestinians, our brothers in Kashmir, the Uyghur Muslims, what would it be?
00:04:20.840And I always wondered to myself, what's Allah going to do that would cause us to fear not coming out?
00:04:30.280Just as our brothers is the fear of bombs being dropped on them, we live in a, you know, in fear, you know, looking behind us, or, you know, having this fear, food, having desperation for food.
00:04:43.080So now, it's like a realisation, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is working in such a mysterious way, that we cannot come out our houses, not in fear of bombs being dropped, but the fear of another person.