Health, illness and sin

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Re: Health, illness and sin

@NeSCio

the quote of my post you put, has nothing to do with the question you pose.
My quote merely indicates that being ill is not some kind of sanctuary where you are free of sins, or where your potential of committing sins is less than when you are healthy. That’s why I say that during a common cold the potential of committing sins is as much present as when you are healthy.It has nothing to do that when you are repenting you still can commit sins, so the value of your repentance might change…or that when you are ill, your repentance will be of more value, or that when you are ill, your potential to commit sins is less.

do you always confuse yourself so easily? here’s another quote from you (i hope here you were saying something relevant)…

“Wat I wanted to say is that when Im suffering from a common cold, I don’t think that will stop me from committing a sin. in other words, with respect to the potential of sinning, it’s the same as when you are healthy.”

… to which there’s a very simple reply…

that you remain able to or have the “potential” to continue committing sins doesn’t cancel out the fact that other earlier sins might still be forgiven by virtue of falling ill (in the same way that retaining the potential to commit future sins doesn’t negate a sincere repentance from former sins)

no one was saying being ill stops you from sinning or that your potential to sin disappears… only that the illness itself expiates sins… get it? no?

and certainly no one is suggesting “poisoning” oneself or contracting “strange bacteria”… something only someone ignorant of the basics of Islam would even think to suggest