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﴾…And indeed one of them will rejoice at calamity as one of you
would rejoice at ease.﴿
608

ADVICE FOR THE PERSON UPON WHOM
CALAMITY AND ILLNESS HAS FALLEN

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

from affliction and illness…cleansing of the heart and soul is
dependent upon afflictions of the body and its difficulties”.

He further said: “When it is not because of the trials and
calamities of the world, then certainly ‘mankind’ has been struck

by the illness of arrogance, fiujub (vanity) and hardness of the heart.
Even though these qualities constitute destruction for them on the

earth and in the Hereafter. Amongst the mercies of All�h,

sometimes ‘mankind’ is struck by a calamity that becomes a
protection for them from illnesses of the heart and safeguards the

608 Narrated by Ibnu M�jah no. 4024 and this is his enunciation, Al Ḥākim IV/307 is like the ˛adıth
from Abū Safiıd . Al Ḥākim said: “It is Ṣaḥīḥ according to Muslim”, and that was agreed upon by
Adh-Dhahabī. Silsilah al Aḥādīth aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah no. 144.
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