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Question 16: I have faced so many difficulties in my life that it has made me hate this life. Every time I turned to Allah, I pleaded for Him to take my life away from me at the earliest. This is my wish until now as I do not see any solutions to my problems except death; it is the only thing that can save me from this punishment. Is this behavior forbidden for me? Response: When a person wishes for death because of something that has afflicted him, he is doing something that the Prophet (rL) ~ .JJ! ~) has prohibited. The Prophet (rL) ~ .JJi ~) said, J

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"Know that victory comes with patience, relief with distress and ease with hardship.'" The one who is afflicted with any affliction should know that those afflictions expiate some of the sins that he has committed. No believer is afflicted with any kind of worry, grief or pain except that Allah expiates sins for him due to that, even the pricking of a thom. When the person has patience and expects rewards from Allah, he reaches the stage of being among the patient. This stage is a very elevated stage. Allah has stated about its inhabitants,

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Therefore, you, the questioner, must be patient and expect relief from Allah. Allah says in His book,

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Ruling Concerning Celebrating Specific Occasions, such as the Two Eids, the Night of lsra and the Middle of the Month of Shaban Question 17: We have some practices that we have become accustomed to and have inherited concerning some special occasions for example, making cakes and biscuits on the day ofEid al-Fitr. We also prepare meat and fruit for the night of the 27th of Rajab and the night of the 15th of Shaban. Furthermore, there is a specific type of sweet that we must prepare during the day of Ashura. What is the ruling of the Islamic law concerning those things? Response: As for displaying pleasure and happiness during the days of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, there is no harm in that as long as it is within the limits of the Shariah. That would I As just noted, Ibn Uthaimin is probably referring to a lengthy hadith recorded by Ahmad. As a hadith by itself, these words, without the words, "Know that," are recorded by al-Khateeb ai-Baghdadi. According to al­ Albani, it is an authentic hadith. See al-Albani, Sahih al-Jami al-Sagheer, vol. 2, p. 1151 JZ