Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 244
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 244 powers of God and in His ability to bring into being the fin- est of fine and subtlest of means. They consider God’s capabili- ties to be limited. They put their trust in their own knowledge and experience. Compared to their own experiences, even the thought that God exists does not come to them and that He can perhaps also do something. This is indeed the reason why, in serious illnesses, they sometimes declare definitively and cat- egorically that the patient will not survive or will die in a cer- tain period of time or in a certain manner. However, there are scores of examples that I have personally witnessed, and some cases I personally know that after their definitive and categor- ical declarations, God Almighty created provisions for those patients such that they ultimately survived. And sometimes it so happened that those patients whose death they had defini- tively and categorically decreed, became healthy and well, and met them on subsequent occasions and embarrassed them and their knowledge and predictions. It is mentioned in a hadith: 1 ٌ مَا مِن ْ دَآٓء ٍ إِل َّ وَلَه ُ دَوَآٓء [‘There is no disease for which there is no cure’]. I recall the statement of a famous physician who said that there is no disease that is incurable; it is the shortcoming of our knowledge and understanding that our knowledge has not yet fathomed it. It is quite possible that Allah the Exalted has cre- ated some provisions that can bring about a cure for someone whom we believe to be incurable, and he thereby may recover and become well again. Therefore, one should never make a definitive prediction. On the other hand, if one must give an opinion, he may say that this is what he suspects, but it is possi- ble that Allah the Exalted may create a way out of this predica- ment and may cure the patient. Supplication is a weapon that God has created whereby 1. Mishk a t al-Ma sa bi h , Kit a b a t-T ib wa ar-Riq a , Hadith 4514 [Publisher]