It has been related that Imam Ahmad visited Baqi ibn Mukhalid while he was sick and said to him:
"O 'Baqi, rejoice in Allah's reward. The days of health are devoid of sickness and the days of sickness are devoid of health."
This means that during days of health one never contemplates sickness, for plans and ambitions then increase as do hopes and desires. During days of severe sickness, however, one forgets matters that pertains to times of health, weak despair encamps itself within the sick soul, and thus hopelessness prevails.
Commenting on this verse, Ibn Katheer wrote:
"Allah is describing man and the base characteristic that he is the possessor of (with the exception of those believers upon whom Allah has bestowed His mercy). In general, if man is afflicted with hardship after ease; he become hopeless of ever seeing good in the future, he shows disdain for the past - as if he never experienced good days - and despair for the future as if he never expected succor and relief."
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