It is written on page number 173 of Fazaail-e-Du’a, ‘A slight fever, flu, headache and similar light illnesses are not a misfortune and calamity; rather, a blessing.’ (They can be supplicated for).

Bear in mind! Even though illness is a blessing, but we weak people should not supplicate for illness, but for well-being. Encouragement for this supplication is also in a blessed Hadees; hence,

The Noble Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would make the following supplication,اَللّٰھُمَّ اِنِّیْ اَسْئَلُکَ الْمُعَافَاۃَ فِی الدُّنْیَا   وَالْآخِرَۃِ’ i.e. O Allah Almighty, I ask You for well-being in this life and the Hereafter. (Ibn-e-Majah, vol. 4, p. 273, Hadees 3851) We should also continue to supplicate for well-being from time to time.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

A pious predecessor who would offer Nawafil in gratitude for fever

A’la Hadrat, the Imam of the Ahl-us-Sunnah, Maulana Shah Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه states, ‘Headaches and fevers are those blessed illnesses which would occur for the Prophets عَـلَـيْهِمُ السَّلَام. When one Wali (Saint) رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه had a headache, he spent the entire night offering Nawafil in gratitude for this, that the Lord Almighty granted me that illness which would occur for the Prophets عَـلَـيْهِمُ السَّلَام.

اَللّٰہُ اَکْبَرْ! Here the state is such that if minute pain is felt, then one thinks of praying Salah quickly. Then he said, ‘Every illness and pain becomes an expiation of sins for that specific part of the body which it affects. However, a fever is that illness which penetrates the whole body, which removes sins from the entire body, vein to vein بِاِذْنِہٖ تَعَالٰی (with the command of Allah Almighty). اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه, I often have fevers and headaches. (Malfuzaat-e-A’la Hazrat, pp. 118-119)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic sisters! Generally, it is a habit of some Islamic sisters that when they get ill and someone asks how they are, then they mention a whole heap of complaints in front of them without any reason. For example, ‘Sister! What