Of the blessings of those who fall sick is that sickness is one of the strongest and most powerful antidotes to the sins that we commit. There is hardly anything that will expiate our sins that is more powerful than trials and afflictions that befall us.

Allah says:

And whatever strikes you of disaster – it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.

(Quran 42:30)

Turn Your Lemon into Lemonade & Calamity into Blessing

Every sickness and calamity that happens: a death of a loved one, a loss of a relative, financial economic, distress physical hardship, a fever, any type of pain and suffering.

Sickness – A Blessing in Disguise

Once the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) visited a sick person who was suffering from fever, he said:

I have good news for you. For verily My Lord has told me that fever is my punishment that I inflict upon my believers so that they don’t have to be punished in the hell.

Think of Your Hardships as Blessings in Disguise

This is a punishment that Allah inflicts so that you are saved from the punishment of the next life. so in fact, it is a blessing in disguise.

And once the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) visited a female companion, Umm Sa’ib. She was also suffering from fever; she was tossing and turning.

When Prophet Muhammad asked her what the matter was, she said:

 “I have a severe fever may Allah curse it!”

 The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:

 Do not curse the fever, for verily it forgives sins like a furnace gets rid of the impurities in iron.

(Muslim)

 When you put an iron into the furnace, it is full of impurities; when you take it out, it is 100% pure. So, the Prophet (peace be upon him) compared the fever to a furnace, and this is a very good comparison because both are burning.

And in another hadith he said:

 It will get rid of your sins like a tree in the fall. When you shake it all, the leaves come down. So too will the sickness get rid of your sins.

Every Calamity is for Your Good

 This is something that applies to every single calamity and misfortune. So much so, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

 Even if a thorn pricks one of you, it will expiate some of your sins.

(Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

 And in a famous hadith, he said:

Amazing are the affairs of the believers, because everything that happens to him happens for his good. If some good happens and he’s happy, he thanks Allah, and so that’s good for him. And if some bad happens, then he is patient, and Allah rewards him for that patience.

(Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

I Was Sick But You Did Not Visit Me (Hadith Qudsi)

The believer is always a winner, he is never a loser. No matter what calamity befalls the believer, he will always come out on the upper hand having won over because he has Allah on his side. And when you have Allah on your side, you don’t care what is happening in the rest of humanity.

 We don’t wish to be sick, we don’t wish for a calamity, but every one of us will fall sick and will face calamities.

When it happens, then we rise up to the challenge, we renew our Iman in Allah, and we humble and submit ourselves to Him. And through all of this, we appreciate the blessings even in falling sick and in having the calamity that we have had.