A person\u2019s life in this world is not stable. One passes through alternating periods of happiness and dismay, strength and weakness, wealth and poverty, health and sickness, etc.<\/p>\n
A true believer is one who maintains a clear level of faith throughout the worldly fluctuations. He continues to remember Allah and ascribe the bounties to Him, and he turns to Him in submission, asking for relief from his affliction.<\/p>\n
This is described by the Messenger of Allah \ufdfa, who said,
\n\u200f\u0639\u062c\u0628\u0627 \u0644\u0623\u0645\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0624\u0645\u0646 \u0625\u0646 \u0623\u0645\u0631\u0647 \u0643\u0644\u0647 \u0644\u0647 \u062e\u064a\u0631\u060c \u0648\u0644\u064a\u0633 \u0630\u0644\u0643 \u0644\u0623\u062d\u062f \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0644\u0644\u0645\u0624\u0645\u0646 \u200f:\u200f \u0625\u0646 \u0623\u0635\u0627\u0628\u062a\u0647 \u0633\u0631\u0627\u0621 \u0634\u0643\u0631 \u0641\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u062e\u064a\u0631\u0627\u064b \u0644\u0647\u060c \u0648\u0625\u0646 \u0623\u0635\u0627\u0628\u062a\u0647 \u0636\u0631\u0627\u0621 \u0635\u0628\u0631 \u0641\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u062e\u064a\u0631\u0627\u064b \u0644\u0647\u200f\u200f
\n\u201cIndeed amazing are the affairs of a believer! They are all for his benefit. If he is granted ease of living he is thankful and this is best for him. And if he is afflicted with a hardship, he perseveres; and this is best for him.\u201d (Muslim)<\/p>\n
And Allah said,
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\nCertainly, We shall test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient\u2014those who, when afflicted with calamity say, \u201cTruly to Allah we belong, and truly to Him shall we return.\u201d It is those who will be awarded blessings and mercy from their Lord; and it is those who are the guided ones. [Al-Baqarah 2: 155\u2013157]<\/p>\n
Thus, a believer shows gratitude and thankfulness for all the wonderful blessings that Allah grants him. And he displays patience and submission during sickness and hardships, hunger, or other afflictions.<\/p>\n
Allah has decreed that, in this life, hardships and disasters strike both believers and non-believers. For a non-believer, they are inconveniences that hinder him from proceeding with his normal involvement in the worldly life.<\/p>\n
For a believer, on the other hand, they are instances of test and remembrance, tests that promise great rewards, and indications of atonement and expiation of sins.
\nRegardless of how little is the harm that strikes a believer, it carries with it good news of forgiveness and elevated rank in Paradise. The Righteous Predecessors used to be pleased when a hardship afflicted them, seeing it as a token of Allah\u2019s forgiveness and benevolence.<\/p>\n
Let`s take a look at the rewards which a believer gets for the difficulties he had to undergo.<\/p>\n
Multiplication of Rewards<\/strong> Rewards for Sickness<\/strong> Abdallah bin Mas’ud RA reported that the Messenger of Allah \ufdfa said: Removal of Sins<\/strong> Elevation in Ranks<\/strong> Continuous Reward<\/strong> Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari RA narrated that the Prophet \ufdfa said, Patience Leads to Paradise<\/strong> Thus we have learnt that difficulties are challenging and hard to bear, but they can certainly be very rewarding as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A person\u2019s life in this world is not stable. One passes through alternating periods of happiness and dismay, strength and weakness, wealth and poverty, health and sickness, etc. A true believer is one who maintains a clear level of faith throughout the worldly fluctuations. He continues to remember Allah and ascribe the bounties to Him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/g010722.png?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-hYs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 22:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnas RA reported that the Prophet \ufdfa said:
\n\u201cThe amount of reward is in accordance with the amount of suffering. When Allah loves some people, He tries them (with affliction). He who then is content (with Allah\u2019s decree) has achieved the acceptance (of Allah), and he who is dissatisfied (with Allah\u2019s decree) will attain the anger (of Allah).\u201d (At-Tirmidhi)<\/p>\n
\nOne should not look to sickness as a gloomy episode, but should remember the great good in it. It is one form of affliction with which Allah tests His servants, giving them a chance to acquire rewards, as is further emphasized below.<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cWhenever a Muslim is afflicted by harm from sickness or other matters, Allah will drop his sins because of that, like a tree drops its leaves\u201d [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]<\/p>\n
\nAbu Sa`id Al-Khudri RA reported that the Prophet \ufdfa said,
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\n“No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for that.” [Al-Bukhari]<\/p>\n
\n`A\u2019ishah RA narrated that once some pain afflicted the Prophet \ufdfa causing him to suffer and turn-about in his bed. She said, \u201cHad one of us done this, you would have blamed him.\u201d He \ufdfa replied:
\n\u201cAn ailment is intensified for the righteous. Whenever a believer is afflicted by a hardship, whether it is a thorn or more, a sin is taken off from him because of it, and he is elevated by one rank (in Paradise).\u201d (Ahmad)<\/p>\n
\nUsually, when a believer falls sick, he would not be able to do the same amount of good deeds (prayer, fasting, helping Muslims, etc.) that he used to do when he was well. But Allah, out of His great mercy, continues to record for him the good deeds that he was forced to stop because of his sickness.<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cFor a traveling or sick person, his deeds will be recorded in accordance with what he used to do when he was resident or well.\u201d (Al-Bukhari)<\/p>\n
\n`Atta ibn Rabaah R reported that Ibn `Abbas RA told him,
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\n\u201cDo you want to see a woman from the people of Paradise?\u201d
\nHe said, \u201cYes.\u201d
\nHe said, \u201cIt is this black woman. She came to the Prophet \ufdfa saying, \u2018I have (epileptic) seizures, and I get exposed, so supplicate to Allah for me.\u2019
\nHe \ufdfa said, \u2018If you wish, be patient and you will attain Paradise; or if you wish, I will ask Allah to cure you.\u2019
\nShe replied, \u2018I will be patient! But my body gets exposed (because of the fall), so supplicate to Allah for me that I do not become exposed.\u2019
\nAnd he \ufdfa did.\u201d (Al-Bukhari 5652)<\/p>\n