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SEEING GOOD IN ALL

God mentions the people who turn to Him in times of
such adversity as follows:

When We grant blessing to a man, he turns away and
draws aside but when any evil touches him, he is full of
endless prayers! (Surah Fussilat: 51)
When harm touches man, he calls on Us, lying on his
side or sitting down or standing up. Then when We
remove the harm from him he carries on as if he had
never called on Us when the harm first touched him. In
that way We make what they have done appear good to
the profligate. (Surah Yunus: 12)
When harm touches people they call on their Lord,
turning in repentence to Him. But then, when He gives
them a taste of mercy from Him, a group of them
immediately associate others with their Lord. (Surat ar-

Rum: 33)
As the foregoing verses suggest, man must not only pray
at times of difficulty; a person must also take refuge in God
after he has been relieved. It may then be that that very
disease or trial allows the person to acknowledge his
weakness before God and repent, and thereby, lead to life-
time submission in God.

In return for the patience shown in disease, God
may reward the sufferer with an eternal life in paradise

As we said earlier, another purpose of suffering from a
disease is testing the patience and trust of a person in God.
When afflicted by a disease, Muslims are clearly
distinguished from the people of ignorance with the patience