Covid-19: Coronavirus And Al-majiris

It is very essential to look at any phenomena or occurrence that calls for public intervention from different perspectives.

Many experts have reacted to the issue of the Al-majiris playing adamantly to the rules of the government against coronavirus pandemic.

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Al-majiris are some people that are part of the Hausa that are either in a local Islamic schools or those begging for alms on the streets.
They are in every state but mainly live in the Northern part of Nigeria as they are from the North as well.
As I said earlier that experts have looked at their adamant behavior towards rules that could guide people from contracting coronavirus, I believed they have not looked at the religious area of their being adamant to adhere to social distancing and stay-at-home order.
In my opinion, I don’t believe that they don’t want to embrace the rules but their religious background has made them be uncautious of other things that happened around them besides religion.

To me, Islam has never believed in isolation neither has it believed in greeting one another from far.
Islam believes there is mercy in anything that involves congregations. That is the reason you will always see the Al-majiris walking in two, three upward. They never walk alone as the fans of Liverpool always say.
They eat together, they work together before the advent of coronavirus, so don’t you think it would be difficult to leave all these characteristics that have been part of them, right from their childhood, for a covid-19 pandemic?