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Christians and Muslims both believed that the plague was sent by a higher power. Ironically, they both also believed that it was God sending a message to punish the people for what they had done wrong.
During the time of the plague, many people could not understand where it came from. Initially people believed that it was caused by an alignment with planets. Some other theories were that the Jews came to poison the Christians, evil deamons were about in the towns, and the earth was letting out fumes. "There must have been some other cause such as, for instance, the will of God, or corrupt humours and the badness of air and earth; although perhaps such poisonings, where they did occur, were a contributory factor." (251) Eventually, most religions settled on a common cause. God. Both Christians and Muslims alike felt that God was trying to punish them.
Most people felt that it was God, upset from all of the sins committed. Muslims stated that "It is punishment that God......

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