And sadra, I believe you are right that praying is good for people. I have to find some other way.

And how are you these days @richfed ?

Here the temperatures are much better this week here too. Still below zero, and that's fine in February. I guess we are a part of the same weather system.
I'm so glad to hear that things are getting better in UK, and you have empty beds at the hospitals. We also have a conservative government now, and I don't vote for them. But I like the way they have handled this pandemi. And then we have quite a few people that don't want to take the vaccine and some of them "don't believe in virus" and thinks that Bill Gate is behind it all. I don't know if I shall laugh or cry

Looking forward to spring

In any case, I wish good health to all the people of the world, you and Hugh and others, and this should be due to the efforts of scientists and praying to God.
Praying to God is very important.


@Torborg, @HuwR
Wish health to you
With this prayer

His Supplication when Faced with a Worrisome Task or when Misfortune Descended and at the Time of Distress

O He through whom the knots of detested things are untied!
O He through whom the cutting edge of hardships is blunted!
O He from whom is begged the outlet to the freshness of relief!
Intractable affairs yield to Thy power,
means are made ready by Thy gentleness,
the decree goes into effect through Thy power,
and all things proceed according to Thy desire.
By Thy desire they follow Thy command without Thy word
and by Thy will they obey Thy bans without Thy prohibition.
Thou art the supplicated in worries
and the place of flight in misfortunes;
none of them is repelled unless Thou repellest,
none is removed unless Thou removest.
Upon me has come down, My Lord, something whose weight burdens me
and upon me has fallen something whose carrying oppresses me.
Through Thy power Thou hast brought it down upon me
and through Thy authority Thou hast turned it toward me.
None can send away what Thou hast brought,
none can deflect what Thou hast turned,
none can open what Thou hast closed,
none can close what Thou hast opened,
none can make easy what Thou hast made difficult,
none can help him whom Thou hast abandoned.
So bless Muhammad and his Household,
open for me, my Lord, the door of relief through Thy graciousness,
break from me the authority of worry by Thy strength,
confer the beauty of Thy gaze upon my complaint,
let me taste the sweetness of benefaction in what I ask,
give me from Thyself mercy and wholesome relief,
and appoint for me from Thyself a quick way out!
Distract me not through worry
from observing Thy obligations
and acting in accordance with Thy prescriptions.
My capacity has been straitened, my Lord, by what has come down on me,
and I am filled with worry by carrying what has happened to me,
while Thou hast power
to remove what has afflicted me
and to repel that into which I have fallen.
So do that for me though I merit it not from Thee, O Possessor of the Mighty Throne!

http://mde.emadionline.com/Dua/Al-Sahifa%20Al-Sajjadiyya-7-EN-S.mp4

Nice to see the picture from Teheran, with snow on the mountain tops in the background . We have the British virus in Norway now (and even a few of the South African) and it's harder to keep the infection rate down. Because of that mutant virus the border is closed. In Oslo and the area around us, most shops are closed, the University and many other things. Still we don't have death rates higher than in a normal year. I'm lucky to have a nice home office together with my husband and even our youngest (daughter 24) is here studying from home. But in many families they are working with small children crowded by the kitchen table or they are alone and lonely. For Norwegians the vaccines are from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, but few have got it yet. Even if we are a small country we will have our own home-made vaccine later, but its hard to say if it will be good and used. They say it will work for the South African mutant. Yes it is a arms race - between the virus and the vaccines.

I'm glad to hear that you got the vaccine at least you are safe from the virus