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A healthy state can instigate a person to become arrogant,

proud and amazed at ‘himself’, and whilst in a state such as that

‘he’ is free to do and be active in whatever (‘he’ wants). However,
if the illness already dominates ‘him’ and the affliction already

subjugates ‘him’, then ‘his’ soul can become benign, ‘his’ heart

becomes gentle, negative qualities like pride, arrogance, envy and
self adulation can be lost from ‘him’, then finally ‘he’ is submissive

and resigned to All�h as well as ‘him’ diligently striving for fiilmu

sharfiı, reading Al Qur√ān, performing salat five times a day in
jam�fiah and performing fiib�dah to ‘Him’.

Ibnu Qayyim ﷲا ﻪﲪر said: “The heart and the soul can take

benefit from affliction and illness that constitute matters, which

cannot be felt except if within them there is life. Cleanliness of the
heart and soul is dependent upon afflictions of the body and its

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difficulties”.

10. Illness constitutes a blessing and a gift.

Because those trials and tests constitute blessings, so

righteous people are justly happy whenever they get those trials, no
different to when they get that which is favourable. The Prophet 

has already stated that the trials of the Prophets and those people

who are righteous are illness, poverty and others. After that ‘he’ 
said:

607 Tu˛fatul Marı∂ p. 25.
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