Clarification on whether crying from pain is considered wailing
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The questioner:
A person may be struck by a car accident or a fire, for example, and cry intensely with a strong voice. Is this considered wailing? I mean, a person is struck by a fire, a fracture, or a car accident and cries loudly due to the severity of the pain. Is this called patience?
The Shaykh:
Crying is prohibited regarding the deceased, but when a person cries from his own affliction, it does not fall under this. The verses and hadiths are all about crying over the news of death or over the deceased.
The questioner:
One is commanded to be patient and to endure.
The Shaykh:
In any case, my advice to you is to be patient and endure, for that is the Sunnah. However, attributing this [crying] to him is a matter of consideration.
Another questioner:
Upon him. Yes. His saying (peace and blessings be upon him) to the Jews that you will be opened up and that he is being tortured. This is a language of permissibility. To the Shaykh, to the Jews, if it is in the good of Allah.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and what is the da'wah? This da'wah is a da'wah that believes in all good, a da'wah to the Jews, they believe in it for the Jews, he calls them to Allah, and teaches them what repels them, and warns them of what harms them, perhaps they will be guided. Yes.
A person may be struck by a car accident or a fire, for example, and cry intensely with a strong voice. Is this considered wailing? I mean, a person is struck by a fire, a fracture, or a car accident and cries loudly due to the severity of the pain. Is this called patience?
The Shaykh:
Crying is prohibited regarding the deceased, but when a person cries from his own affliction, it does not fall under this. The verses and hadiths are all about crying over the news of death or over the deceased.
The questioner:
One is commanded to be patient and to endure.
The Shaykh:
In any case, my advice to you is to be patient and endure, for that is the Sunnah. However, attributing this [crying] to him is a matter of consideration.
Another questioner:
Upon him. Yes. His saying (peace and blessings be upon him) to the Jews that you will be opened up and that he is being tortured. This is a language of permissibility. To the Shaykh, to the Jews, if it is in the good of Allah.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and what is the da'wah? This da'wah is a da'wah that believes in all good, a da'wah to the Jews, they believe in it for the Jews, he calls them to Allah, and teaches them what repels them, and warns them of what harms them, perhaps they will be guided. Yes.
Source
التعليق على بعض أحاديث صحيح مسلم، تابع شرح كتاب الجنائز (2) — islamhouse.com (4:47)
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