Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

you don’t sin. There is not a disease more dangerous than
sinning.” The reason why Pharaoh wanted everybody to worship
him was because he lived for four hundred years, during which he
never had a headache or fever. If his head had ached only once,
he would not have even thought of that impudence. If a person
becomes sick and does not beg Allah for forgiveness Azrâîl
‘’alaihissalâm’ says to him, “O you unwary! I have sent you
messengers so many times. But you won’t pull yourself together.”
Our superiors say that within forty days a Believer should have
some trouble, some illness or some fear, or some damage should
befall his property. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was
about to marry a woman with nikâh, when they said to him
appraisingly that the woman had never become ill. Thereupon he
gave up marrying her. One day he ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
was talking about a headache, when a villager said, “How is a
headache? I have never had a headache.” Upon this he stated:
“Keep away from me! Anyone who wants to see a man for Hell
must look at him.” When ’Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’ asked him
if anyone could reach the grade of martyrdom, he stated: “A
person who remembers death twenty times daily attains the
grade of martyrs.” No doubt, the ill remember death very often.
It is for these six reasons that some never used medicine.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ used medicine
because he did not need these reasons.
It is written as follows in Durr-ul-Mukhtâr and also in the
section about kinds of water in Radd-ul-Muhtâr, which
commentates the former:
“It is permissible to use something harâm as a healer,
provided it will be known that it will cure the ill person and when
no halâl medicine is available. A hadîth-i-sherîf in Bukhârî states:
‘Allâhu ta’âlâ has not created healing for you in things that are
harâm.’ Its meaning is: ‘Substances that are harâm but which are,
as it has been experimented, good for healing, are halâl for
medicine.’ As a matter of fact, it is halâl for a person who is about
to die of thirst to drink as much wine as to save him from death.
The existence of a curing effect in something harâm will be
understood only if a specialized Muslim doctor says so. Only,
pork and its fat cannot be used as medicine even if they are
curatives.” Muhammad Zarkânî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ states
as follows in his commentary to Mawâhib-i-ladunniyya: “It is
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