What is the ruling on Qunūt (supplication) during an epidemic or plague?
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Most scholars differentiate between a pandemic (waba’) and a plague (ta’un), considering a pandemic to be more general than a plague. It is legislated to perform Qunut (supplication) when a calamity, such as a pandemic, befalls, in all obligatory prayers.
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