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Hazrat Ali saw a tribe of Nabatis in Iraq dressed gorgeously on an I'd day and asked them : Why are these gorgeous dresses?
They said : They day in which we do not commit sins is the day of our festival. God said : Surely man is inordinate, as he thinks himself free from want. In other words, he does not care anything as a result of his living in peace.

A certain sage said : Pharaoh lived for 400 years. During this long period, he had not even an attack of headache, nor the change of even a gland. For the reason of this continued happiness, he said : I am your highest Lord-79 : 24. He claimed himself to be God Had he suffered even half headache for a day, he would have kept himself busy for that and he could not have claimed to be God. The Prophet said : Remember much what destroys happiness (death). It is said that fever is a messenger of death. It reminds death and keeps one away from useless things.
God says : Don't your see that they are put to test once or twice a year and yet they are not repentant and do not remember God?
This test is meant to be diseases. It is said what when a man is affected twice a year by diseases and yet does not become

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repentant, the angel of death says to him : O careless one, messenger after messenger came to you from me but you did not respond to them. For this reason, the ancient sages became anxious when any disease or loss of life or property did not come to them even after expiry of a year. They said : A believer does not become free from fear or disaster in every 40 days.

It is reported that Hazrat Ammar-b-Yaser married a woman and after this it appeared that the woman never fell ill. For this reason, he divorced her. The Prophet consented to marry a woman as she had many qualities. He was also told that she had never any disease. The Prophet said : I have got no necessity for such a woman. Once there was mention of disease and headache before the Prophet and a man said : I don't know what headache is. The Prophet then said : Go away from me. Let one who wished to see an inmate of Hell look at this man. The Prophet said : Fever is a portion of a believer's hell. Hazrat Anas and Hazrat Ayesha asked the Prophet : O Messenger of God, will there be any man with the martyrs on the Resurrection day ? He said : Yes, a man who remembers death twenty times a day. It is beyond doubt that a diseases man remembers death much. When the benefits of diseases are numerous a party of saints gave up efforts to remove diseases.