Ranks and Reward of an ill Person

Jan 1, '13 11:16 AM for everyone

It has been reported on the authority of the Holy Prophet (SAWW):  “An ill person has four characteristics: 
1- Sin is not written for him.  
2- God orders the angel to write for him the best of deeds he would do when he was in good health.  
3- Every sin he has committed with body organs will be forgiven.

4- He will be forgiven whether he dies or survives.  

*  “When a Muslim becomes ill, God will write for him the best deeds he would do when he was in good health and his sins would fall off like the leaves of a tree.”  

* “Whoever visits an ill person, should the ill person recite a Du for him, it will be fulfilled.”  

* “God will send the following revelation to the angel on the left side: Do not write anything for my servant as long as he is under My shelter.  God will say to the angel on the right side:  Write a virtue for the moaning of My servant.”  

* “Illness cleanses body from sins in the same way that a black smiths’ bellows removes dust from iron.”  

* “A child getting sick is atonement for his parents’ sins.”
 

* It is reported on the authority of Imam Sadeq (AS):  
 “The Messenger of Allah said: Fever is a sign of death and God’s prison on the earth.  Its warmth is form the Hell and this much of warmth is a believer’s share of Fire.”  

* “What a good pain is fever, for it gives a share of affliction to every body organ and one who is not afflicted with tribulation has not any share.” 

* “When a believer is suddenly affected with fever, his sins fall off like the leaves of a tree.  If he laments in his bed, his lamentations are as Subhanallah (Glory be to Allah) and his cry is la ilaha illal lah (There is no God but Allah), his moving in bed is as if he is fighting for the cause of Allah.  If he lives on and serves God, he will be forgiven.  Happy is such a person!”  

* “One-day fever is atonement for one year of sin and its agony will body for the same period.  This agony is atonement for the past and future.”  

* “One who laments for a night but does not complain or rather thanks God for it, the same will serve as atonement for two years; one year for accepting the pain and one year for forbearing it.”  

* “Illness for a believer is as purification and mercy but for the unbeliever it is punishment and curse.”  

*  “Illness persists in believer till his sins cleansed.  A headache of one night will remove all sins except the cardinal ones.”
  It has been reported on the authority of Imam Baqir (AS)

* “If a believer knows what great reward afflictions have, he wishes to be cut into pieces with scissors.”
 

*It has been reported on the authority of the Holy Prophet (SAWW): “Should a believer walk in the straight path and become ill, go on a trip or is not able to perform his duties as he used to, God will write for him the same virtue for the deeds of normal days.”
  Then the Holy Prophet (SAWW) recited the following verse:  
  “So they shall have a reward never to be cut off.”  (Verse 6 of the Quranic Chapter, Teen)
 

* It has been reported on the authority of Imam Sadiq (AS):  “When a believer dies, the twoguardian angels will ascend to heavens saying: O God! You took the life of such and such person.  God will say: Go down and perform prayer at his graveside and say La ilaha illal lah.  Then write these deeds for him.”
 

* Jabir reports that a man who was both dumb and deaf came to the Holy Prophet (SAWW) making gesture with his hand.  The Holy Prophet (SAW) said: “Give him a piece of paper to write what he wants.”
  The man took the paper and wrote on it:  
  “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Mohammad (SAW) is the Messenger of Allah.”
  At this point, the Holy Prophet (SAW) said:
“Write for him something and give him the good tidings of paradise, for, whenever a Muslim loses his tongue, his ears, his arms or legs but he is thankful for that affliction and invokes God to give him reward, God will save him from Fire and make him enter paradise.” 
  Then the Holy Prophet (SAW) said: “People of afflictions have ranks in the world and positions in the Hereafter which no one can attain with righteous deeds so much so that he wishes his body would be cut into pieces with scissors.  This desire arises when these people watch the reward given to the afflicted believers by God on the Day of Judgment, for God does not accept any deed without man’s submission to Him.”