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PATIENCE DURING ILLNESS

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“Lady Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, Mother of the believers, may Allah be pleased with her, asked the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, what the plague was. He replied: 'It is a punishment that Allah sends upon whom He wills; but for Muslims He has made it as a mercy. If a worshiper of Allah is afflicted by the plague and remains patiently in his town hoping to be recompensed by Allah, with the realization that only that which is determined by Allah will happen to him, he will indeed receive a recompense equal to that of a martyr.”

Bukhari with a chain up to the Mother of Believers, Lady Ayesha who related this.