Ever Fallen Ill?
A temporary loss of health is one of the
great blessings Allah Almighty enables his servants to experience. When one falls ill, all
worldly engagements involuntarily come to a standstill — engagements about which man
normally imagines that they are unavoidable. Man comes to realise that after all he is not
indispensable for the world, nor the world is indispensable for him.
While a person is ill, he doesnt enjoy the food and
the drinks he normally does as a healthy person. It gives him a reason to thank Allah for
the numerous blessings He has made available to him, as also the accompanying abilities
with which he can properly benefit from them.
When illness gets more acute, one gets a real
feeling of rubbing ones shoulders with death. Thus one realises that death is a
serious possibility. It is this experience that actually enables one to genuinely realise
the folly of ones over-involvemennt in the unnecessary worldly pursuits. The
weakness of ones body and the acuteness of illness all help in realising that when
it will come to the time of departure from this world, no one will be able to come to the
rescue of the departing soul. This near-death experience is indeed needed by all of us.
And indeed it comes to our service on a fairly regular basis. How very unfortunate then
that despite going through as thorough an experience as that of illness, we still find our
worldly life so absorbing that we do not spare time to ponder seriously about our
life-after-death?
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