Lesson 3 of 6 · It is not weak faith
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Look at the company the words keep in the report below. Sorrow and sadness are listed alongside fatigue, disease, injury and distress. They are in a list of things that happen to a body, not in a list of moral failures.
Qur’an and Sunnah
Sorrow and sadness appear here in a list with fatigue, disease, injury and distress. The company the words keep is the whole point: they sit among things that befall a body, not among moral failures.
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri and Abu Huraira:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "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
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