Is there no cure for your sickness and no awakening from your sleep?
Is there no cure for your sickness and no awakening from your sleep? أما ترحم من نفسك ما ترحم من غيرك فلربما ترى الضاحى من حر الشمس فتظله أو ترى المبتلى بألم يمض جسده فتبكى رحمة له فما صبرك على دائك، وجلدك على مصابك، وعزاك عن البكاء على نفسك وهى أعز الانفس عليك، وكيف لا يوقظك خوف بيات نقمة، وقد تورطت بمعاصيه مدارج سطواته But, have you no pity for yourself like you have upon the others?
Sometimes you see the one exposed to the sun, so you provide him with the shade, or you see someone afflicted with pains on his body so you cry out of mercy for him. So, what makes you to be patient upon your own sickness and firm upon your own calamities, and what has consoled you from weeping upon yourself, although your life is more precious to you.
And how come the fear of an ailment does not keep you awake at nights although you are on your way to the Wrath of Allah -azwj due to your sins?’ [7] رُوِيَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ لَمَّا تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ قَالَ: غَرَّهُ جَهْلُهُ It is reported that the Prophet -saww , when he -saww recited this Verse: ( O you, the human being! What deceived you with your Lord, the Benevolent? [82:6] ), said: ‘His ignorance deceived him’’.
[8] See additional Ahadith on questions in the grave in Appendix. VERSES 7 & 8 الَّذِي خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّاكَ فَعَدَلَكَ {7} Who Created you, so He Completed you, then Made you symmetrical [82:7] فِي أَيِّ صُورَةٍ مَا شَاءَ رَكَّبَكَ {8} Into whichever image He so Desires, He Constitutes you [82:8] فِي مَجْمَعِ الْبَيَانِ وَ رُوِيَ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَجُلٍ مَا وُلِدَ لَكَ؟ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا عَسَى أَنْ يُولَدَ لِي إِمَّا غُلَامٌ وَ إِمَّا جَارِيَةٌ، قَالَ: فَمَنْ يُشْبِهُ؟ قَالَ: يُشْبِهُ أُمَّهُ أَوْ أَبَاهُ In (the book) Majma Al Bayan – ‘And it is reported from Al-Reza -asws , from the Prophet -saww having said to a man: ‘What was born unto you?’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah -saww !
And what is the possibility? Perhaps there would be born for me a boy, or maybe a girl’. He -saww said: ‘So whom would he resemble?’ He said, ‘Either he would resemble his mother or his father’. فَقَالَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ.