Desire For The Aakhirat 03

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The Spiritual Value of Good Health, Sickness, and Patience Under Affliction

Allah Ta'ala continues to record the good deeds a person used to perform during good health even after they become unable to perform them due to sickness or old age.
Sickness serves as a purification from sins if the person recuperates, or a means of forgiveness and mercy if it leads to death.
When a believer's deeds are insufficient to reach a high spiritual station decreed by Allah, Allah tests them in their body, wealth, or children, granting them patience to achieve that elevated rank.
On the Day of Judgment, healthy individuals will envy the immense rewards given to the afflicted, wishing their own skin had been cut with scissors in the dunya.

Hadith narrated by Hazrat Muhammad bin Khalid as-Sanami (Rahimahullah) from his father and grandfather (Radhiyallahu Anhu): Allah afflicts a servant with bodily illness, loss of wealth, or trials through children so they may reach a high rank attained through Sabr.
Hadith narrated by Sayyidina Jabir (Radhiyallahu Anhu): Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) stated that when the afflicted receive their rewards on Qiyamah, those with health will wish they had suffered extreme physical affliction in the dunya.

Maximize righteous deeds while blessed with youth, strength, and good health rather than postponing good actions to old age.
Exercise patience (Sabr) when facing illness, physical disability, or the loss/hardship of a child, recognizing it as a divine means of spiritual elevation.