The Difference Between Exhaustion and Cessation in the Prophetic Supplication
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is there a difference between exhaustion and cessation in the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “I ask You for a blessing that does not exhaust and a contentment of the eye that does not cease”?
Answer:
Exhaustion is the end of a thing, and the end of a thing is its cessation. For example, you have money that exhausts.[An-Nahl 16:96] Exhaustion applies to an existing thing. As for “an eye that does not cease,” this is more emphatic than exhaustion. Cessation is more emphatic than exhaustion. Yes, it is continuous. Yes, it means continuous.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is there a difference between exhaustion and cessation in the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “I ask You for a blessing that does not exhaust and a contentment of the eye that does not cease”?
Answer:
Exhaustion is the end of a thing, and the end of a thing is its cessation. For example, you have money that exhausts.
Whatever you have will end, but what Allah has is lasting
مَا عِندَكُمْ يَنفَدُ وَمَا عِندَ اللَّهِ بَاقٍ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من قول المُصَنِّف : الوجه الثاني : أن الله - سبحانه وتعالى - خلق الخلق لعبادته — islamhouse.com (56:12)
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