Covid-19 Lockdown : Halal challenges you should engage in.

In its effort to battle against the Covid-19 pandemic and to curtail its spread, the federal government on the 30th of March, 2020 enforced a 14-days lockdown in some part of the country which has result to boredom for some people. In order to get rid of this boredom, the populace especially the youths has decided to engage themselves in different challenges on social media, challenges like pregnancy challenge, BOP Challenge, Don't rush challenge, bucket list, some even go to the extent of  alcohol drinking challenge, Subhanallah.

In order to curb all this unnecessary challenges which are not adding value to our lives, the writer of this piece has come along with challenges people can partake in that will be useful to them.

Underlisted are some of those challenges :

1) Quran Memorization Challenges:

 As a Muslim, memorizing Quran is one thing we should all be looking forward to achieve. Qur’an memorization is of benefit in this life and hereafter. We should all endeavour to use this period to memorize some chapters and verses of the Holy Qur’an.

2) Qur’an Recitation Challenges : The Prophet (PBUH) says"We should beautify the Holy Qur’an with our voices ", as Muslim some of us can't recite the Quran with Tejwid. As Muslims, we should cease this moment to learn how to recite the Qur’an with sweet voices.

3) Tilawatul' Qur’an /Qur’an Revising : Tilawatul Qur’an is a great exercise that has a great reward from Allah. As a Muslim we can use this period to finish a while Quran within one week. It's very easy, this is the break down, The Holy Qur’an has 30 Juz. We pray five times daily, now if we recite one Juz per Solat, we will finish 5 Juz in a day, and 30 Juz in 6 days. Let's endeavour to finish the Qur’an and pray with it during the period.

4)New Language learning challenge :

 As we all know we are in Anglo-phonic and Franco-phonic continent. Been a bilingual or multilingual in this continent pays a lot. We can cease this opportunity to learn some basic elements of a foreign language. To learn a language at our own convenience, the Duolingo app is available for us. Download it and start a new language class at your own pace.

5) New Skill or Knowledge Acquisition challenge :

 Seeking knowledge is compulsory for all Muslim males and females is the hadith of The Holy Prophet (PBUH). Its very easy to learn a new skill or knowledge in this era, sites and like coursera.com, udemy.com, Allison.com, Google digital skills etc etc are available for our own use for learning a new skill at our own pace. Skills like Microsoft Office skills, Data management, Programming language etc etc can be learnt at our own convenience.

If there are other challenges you think people should engage in, put it on comment session for others to benefit. 

Brethren, let's use this moment to improve on our spiritual, physical and intellectual lives. I pray this Covid-19 pandemic will be eradicated totally from our lands.