فَقَالَ إِنِّى سَقِيمٌۭ
Faqaala inee saqeem
And said, "Indeed, I am [about to be] ill."
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Lessons from past peoples
37:89Ayah 1182
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and said ‘Indeed I feel I will be sick’ that is I will fall ill.
Related Hadiths
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
entered
upon me when I was unwell. He said: ‘Do you intend to perform
Hajj
this year?’ I said: ‘I am sick, O Messenger of Allah.’ He said:
‘Go for Hajj and say: “I will exit Ihram from the point where I
am
prevented.’”
“O Muhammad, you are ill. He said: ‘Yes.’ He said:
Bismillahi arqika, min kulli shay’in yu’dhika, min sharri kulli
nafsin
aw ‘aynin aw hasidin. Allahu yashfika, bismillahi arqika (In
the Name
of Allah I perform Ruqyah for you, from everything that is
harming
you, from the evil of every soul or envious eye, may Allah
heal you.
In the Name of Allah I perform Ruqyah for you).
Messenger of Allah, I intend to perform Hajj, but I am ill. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: Enter Into the state of Ihram on condition that you would abandon it when Allah would detain you.
When the Prophet (ﷺ) fell ill in his fatal illness, he started saying, "With the highest companion."
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) entered upon a sick bedouin in whom he went to visit and said to him, "Don't worry,
Tahur (i.e., your illness will be a means of cleansing of your sins), if Allah Will." The bedouin said,
"Tahur! No, but it is a fever that is burning in the body of an old man and it will make him visit his
grave." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Then it is so."
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