Seeking advice for one who has been afflicted with a trial
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this person wrote his question in the form of verses, and he asks Allah to have you read three verses. He says: O Shaykh, I am afflicted, and hope has lured my heart. I complain to you of the plague. Where is the way, and what is the action? I complain of the sins, and by them the ways have become narrow for me. I hope for advice, O our Shaykh, and for your supplication if it comes to pass. He is seeking advice from your eminence.
Answer:
"I complain to you"—this is not permissible. He should say, "I complain to Allah the Mighty and Majestic." As for seeking advice, yes, that is good. The advice is that you should be patient and that you should take the beneficial means, such as treatment and other things, and ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation). Permissible matters are treated with these, because this is taking permissible means. This is what we advise you to do, along with patience and expecting reward from Allah for what has befallen you. But patience does not mean that you do not seek treatment or that you do not take permissible means. No. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this person wrote his question in the form of verses, and he asks Allah to have you read three verses. He says: O Shaykh, I am afflicted, and hope has lured my heart. I complain to you of the plague. Where is the way, and what is the action? I complain of the sins, and by them the ways have become narrow for me. I hope for advice, O our Shaykh, and for your supplication if it comes to pass. He is seeking advice from your eminence.
Answer:
"I complain to you"—this is not permissible. He should say, "I complain to Allah the Mighty and Majestic." As for seeking advice, yes, that is good. The advice is that you should be patient and that you should take the beneficial means, such as treatment and other things, and ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation). Permissible matters are treated with these, because this is taking permissible means. This is what we advise you to do, along with patience and expecting reward from Allah for what has befallen you. But patience does not mean that you do not seek treatment or that you do not take permissible means. No. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين [5] — alfawzan.live (1:10:16)
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