Zia Sheikh – Illness and Sickness in Life Jumuah 05132016
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Allah is the Greatest, Allah is
the Greatest I bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship
except Allah
I bear witness that there is none
worthy of worship except Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allah Come
to Prayer Allah
is the Greatest, Allah
is the
Greatest I
bear
witness that there is none worthy
of worship except Allah I
bear
witness
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah My
dear respected elders, brothers and sisters, Today's khutbah
is going to be about the issue of
sickness in one's life.
Illness and sickness is actually part of one's
existence and something that we cannot deny.
Something that will take place, it will happen
to all of us from time to time.
And I have recited some verses from you
in the Quran And it is Ibrahim A
.S. talking about Allah SWT When he is
explaining Allah, he mentions certain attributes about Allah
SWT And says Allah is the one who
created me and guided me He is the
one who created me and he is the
one who is guiding me And he feeds
me and he gives me to drink And
the rhythm and the pattern of the ayat
should suggest that Ibrahim A.S. At this
point he should say He is the one
who gives me sickness But instead of saying
that, he says When I become sick, he
cures me Instead of saying that Allah gives
me sickness, Allah makes me sick He says
When I become sick So the scholars, they
have pondered over this issue And the majority
of them, they say that it is not
appropriate To attribute negative things to Allah SWT
Even though we believe that everything is from
Allah SWT Illness, sickness, health, life, death, wealth
Everything is from Allah SWT But when it
comes to negative things It is inappropriate to
attribute those negative things to Allah SWT So
it is not appropriate to say that it
is he who makes me sick So instead,
Ibrahim A.S. said When I become sick,
then he cures me And other scholars say
that illness by itself is not a natural
thing for a human being It is not
something that is attributed to Allah SWT That
Allah gives a person sickness But for the
most part, that illness is self-inflicted from
many perspectives Self-inflicted from the perspective of
maybe the atmosphere and the environment that one
is living in For example, a person is
living in a polluted environment Where the water
is impure Or it is being contaminated by
impurities, by sewage for example And it is
making people sick Or a person, he is
not looking after his health He is not
looking after his fitness He is eating without
any kind of reservation whatsoever He is eating
whatever he wants, whenever he wants He is
eating all different types of junk food So
basically from this perspective The human being is
not being made sick by Allah SWT Rather
he is being sick, he is becoming sick
Because of the fact that he is not
looking after his health And therefore the illness
is self-inflicted And that is why Ibrahim
A.S, he didn't attribute it to Allah
SWT Rather he said When I become sick,
then he cures me So this khutbah, like
I said, it is about the issue of
sickness So what are we supposed to do
when it comes to this sickness?
First of all, we are supposed to try
to prevent sickness from happening As the saying
goes, prevention is better than cure And this
is something that is not just a saying
There is an Islamic background behind it And
one of the things that I just mentioned
Was the issue of excess, extravagance in one's
diet Extravagance in one's lifestyle Allah SWT, he
tells us in the Quran very clearly وَكُلُوا
وَشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُصْرِفُوا O children of Adam, when
you are coming to the place of worship
Then Beautify yourself Make sure you are looking
good, make sure you are smelling good When
you are coming to worship Allah SWT, make
sure you are looking good This is not
the purpose of the khutbah, so I won't
go into it But it is something that
we need to make sure that we take
care of When we are coming to the
masjid whenever we come And then Allah says
وَكُلُوا وَشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُصْرِفُوا Eat and drink Allah
SWT gave you so many blessings to consume
But the condition is وَلَا تُصْرِفُوا Do not
be excessive Do not be excessive in that
consumption Do not be excessive in eating Because
إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ Allah SWT He does
not love those people that are excessive So
from this we can see that prevention Prevention
from sickness It is important for us And
it is an obligation that Allah SWT has
put upon us Another hadith that the Prophet
SAW He said مَا مَلَأَ آدَمِيُنَ وِعَاءَ شَرَّم
مِّن بَطَنِ The human being He doesn't fill
a utensil Which is worse than the stomach
The worst utensil That a person can fill
Is his stomach So this is something that
we do all the time Filling our stomach
at all times But the Prophet SAW He
gave us A prescription To make sure That
we do not become sick When we are
consuming the food that we eat The Prophet
SAW said بِحَسْبِ ابْنِ آدَمِ أَكَلَاتٍ يُقِمْنَ صُلْبَهُ
It is enough for the human being It
is enough for the son of Adam That
he takes a few morsels That make him
straighten his back Meaning enough energy That a
person needs to walk around with And get
around with This is enough consumption for a
human This is enough for a human being
And then he said فَإِنْ كَانَ لَا مَحَالَ
If you are going to eat If you
are going to eat more than that Then
what is the procedure To make sure you
don't become sick He said فَثُلُثٌ لِطُعَامِهِ وَثُلُثٌ
لِشَرَابِهِ وَثُلُثٌ لِنَفَسِهِ A person should make One
third for his food One third for liquid
And one third for empty air He should
leave it empty And the way to understand
that Is to make sure You stop eating
before you are full You feel that you
can eat a little bit more That's when
you stop That's when you stop And according
to scientific research The human brain Actually doesn't
realize That the body is full Until twenty
minutes After the person has eaten So then
a person when he thinks that He can
eat more He's actually already full But because
the brain has not caught up to the
stomach yet A person still feels that he
can eat more He takes a second serving
And then before he knows it He becomes
really full Heartburn, stomach upset And he cannot
move for the rest of the day So
this is what the Prophet said To prevent
illness A person needs to Distribute his consumption
of food Into three parts And like I
mentioned One third for the food One third
for drink And one third you leave it
empty That is why also The prohibition or
the prevention Of sicknesses Is done by personal
hygiene Personal hygiene is something that Islam has
Emphasized right from the beginning If you look
at all the books of Fiqh If you
look at many of the books of Hadith
The first thing That the scholars start with
Is Kitab al Tahara Book of purification Why?
Because purification of the body It is a
central part of Islamic teachings Without purification you
cannot pray Without purification you cannot read the
Quran Without purification you cannot do many things
And as the Prophet said He said Cleanliness
is part of Iman And even regarded as
half of Iman According to some Hadith So
personal hygiene Washing of the hands Clipping of
the nails Taking a shower regularly And washing
The washing of the joints Wherever the joints
meet Washing of those body parts All of
these are mentioned in the Hadith The ten
things of Fitrah Circumcision, clipping of the nails
Taking a shower, washing the joints Etc etc
All of these things Ten things and the
majority of them Are from issues related to
personal hygiene The issue of Siwak Brushing of
the teeth The Prophet A.S. emphasized this
so much He said If it wasn't for
the fact that My Ummah would have difficulty
I would order them I would obligate the
Siwak upon them I would make it Fard
upon them To make the Siwak To brush
the teeth And again according to New scientific
research They say that illnesses that come from
Lack of oral hygiene They can actually even
affect the heart They can actually affect the
heart So it is reported from the Prophet
A.S. That he used to make Siwak
all the time He used to have the
Miswak in his pocket Before leaving the house
He used to make the Miswak Before coming
into the house He used to make Miswak
Before the Salat He used to make Miswak
During the Wudu He used to make Miswak
So it was a constant thing That he
used to do all the time And something
that again We should emphasize The oral hygiene
Brushing the teeth At least two three times
a day Making sure that Especially after consuming
a food So that we don't have bad
breath All of these things are Taught to
us by Islam And they are part of
personal hygiene And prevention from illnesses That can
come to us So what are the benefits
of sickness?
Allah SWT You know he Obviously sickness has
come to us But he has also placed
benefits In those sicknesses for us First of
all When a person becomes sick Then he
has an appreciation For his health Things that
he usually Takes for granted The fact that
he is healthy He usually takes it for
granted But when he becomes sick Then he
thanks Allah SWT For the fact that Allah
had given him health And especially if the
Illness is temporary When he comes out of
that illness He has a new appreciation For
the fact that Allah SWT gave him health
The other thing is That from a scientific
perspective If a person becomes sick He gets
the flu He gets the cold And he
gets some kind of infection The reality is
that A person does get those things But
it actually boosts the immune system It makes
a person much stronger When he becomes sick
And that is why When you get a
vaccination What is the vaccination?
The vaccination for illnesses You get a vaccination
It is actually a very small A minute
sample Sample of that particular illness That you
are trying to get A sickness from That
you are trying to Protect yourself from So
The doctor injects The illness into you Your
body then produces Antibodies And protection For when
you are Actually exposed to The proper illness
So this is what vaccination is So in
that case We understand from this That even
Sicknesses that a person goes through They actually
boost the immune system And a person becomes
Stronger because of that And when he is
exposed to More illnesses Allah SWT protects him
From those illnesses And finally The forgiveness of
sins If a person becomes sick Allah SWT
forgives The sins The Prophet SAW He said
Muslim Whenever
The human being Is afflicted Whenever the Muslim
is afflicted With Nasab and Wasab Nasab basically
means fatigue Wasab means illness A chronic type
of illness Or any type of Grief Any
type of worry Any type of harm Any
type of Concern Even If a thorn A
thorn It goes into his foot Allah SWT
He forgives his sins Through these illnesses That
a person gets So a person should realize
That from this perspective An illness is a
benefit from him And it is a type
of blessing from him So because of that
Many people what happens to them When they
become sick They start complaining And the Prophet
SAW He came to a woman Called Ummul
Saib Or Ummul Musaib And said to her
What is wrong with you Ummul Saib Or
Ummul Musaib You are just shaking And moving
around With discomfort What is wrong You are
shaking You are shaking It means to shake
and move Because of discomfort She said I
have a fever And because of that I
am feeling uncomfortable And she went on to
say May Allah not give barakah In this
illness of mine The Prophet SAW He said
Do not curse This fever of yours Do
not curse this fever Because this illness
This fever It eliminates The sins of the
son of Adam Just like the furnace It
removes the impurities from metal So this is
again A type of blessing That Allah SWT
gives us In the form of sickness That
through that sickness Allah SWT He removes the
impurities And forgives our sins through it But
that does not mean That we should ask
Allah SWT For sickness The Prophet SAW He
used to say to people Ask Allah SWT
For safety And protection But if you are
afflicted At any time with any kind of
test Then be patient And Allah SWT He
will forgive you your sins And He will
raise your status Through that patience That you
are displaying We are out of time now
I had quite a lengthy khutbah prepared I
pray that Allah SWT gives us To understand
and practice what has been said and heard
And if you are ever afflicted with any
type of illness Allah SWT gives us patience
Allah SWT grants us safety From all types
of illnesses And if you have any sick
people in our family Allah SWT grants them
A speedy recovery So ask Allah SWT
for
forgiveness He is the most Forgiving and Merciful
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