Sickness is a MERCY from Allah swt

Adult Munchausen Case 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIsnXtiOHQ

Here is an adult case in which she started to be hospitalized when she was 18 after being hit by a car. Since then, she developed a Munchausen Syndrome due to because she loved the attention that she got when at first she got admitted. And hospital became the first place that she liked. After that, she tried many ways to harm herself so that she can be hosptilaized again, to the extend that she got admitted for more than 30 times.

From this story, it can be seen that M syndrome is so dangerous that if we do not know the right way of doing things, or you do it wrongly, you may harm your own body, to the extend that it may cause fatal or death, in which i believe the patients of M syndrome do not want to face. But because of the "wanted" feeling of wanting to be hospitalized and getting attention from the doctors, patients of M syndrome will do everything that they want to hurt themselves in which it contradicts with the islamic teaching.

From the view of Islam, sickness is a MERCY from the Almighty, Allah swt. He wants to test us, whether we are being patience (sabr) or not. Not olny that, Allah will forgive our sins if we fall sick. In a hadith, Rasullullah saw said: 'Whenever a Muslim experiences any hardship like sickness (etc.), Allah Ta'ala wipes away his sins just as a tree sheds its leaves during autumn.' (Bukhaari and Muslim).

In a nutshell, we need to take care of our body, so that we can be healthy and can do a lot of 'ibadah, IN SHAA ALLAH.

Till then....thank you for reading.


~uda hajar~