The Difference Between Ghamm, Hamm, and Huzn
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Are ghamm, hamm, and huzn all the same meaning?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Are ghamm, hamm, and huzn terms with the same meaning?
The Shaykh:
They are close in meaning, but ghamm may be when a person is in a narrow place, in a place, I mean, a place that suffocates him, or like what happened to Yunus (peace be upon him)[Al-Anbya 21:88] ghamm in the belly of the whale, in the belly of the whale is a narrow, tight place where no air or wind or anything comes to him, he called upon his Lord, so Allah took him out of the ghamm.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Are ghamm, hamm, and huzn all the same meaning?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Are ghamm, hamm, and huzn terms with the same meaning?
The Shaykh:
They are close in meaning, but ghamm may be when a person is in a narrow place, in a place, I mean, a place that suffocates him, or like what happened to Yunus (peace be upon him)
and saved him from the distress. And thus do We save the believers.
وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْغَمِّ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُنجِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثالث في انقسام أدوية أمراض القلب إلى قسمين : طبيعية وشرعية — islamhouse.com (55:54)
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