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• Another lesson is the Prophet’s ﷺ statement: “The supplication of my brother Dhu’l-Nun—no distressed person ever recites it without Allah relieving him: ‘There is no god but You; glory be to You! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers’” (Al-Anbiya 87).(1)
• The episode also demonstrates that faith delivers one from terrors and hardships, for Allah says: “And thus We deliver the believers” (Al-Anbiya 88)—meaning that whenever believers are plunged into such ordeals, their very faith becomes the means of their rescue.
(1) Sunan al-Tirmidhi, hadith no. 3505.
* وفيها: ما قالهُ النبيُّ ﷺ: «دعوةُ أخي ذي النونِ، ما دعا بها مكروبٌ إلا فرَّجَ اللهُ عنهُ: ﴿لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ﴾ [الأنبياء: ٨٧]» (١).
* وفيها: أنَّ الإيمانَ ينجِّي من الأهوالِ والشدائدِ؛ لقولهِ تعالى: ﴿وَكَذَلِكَ نُنْجِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ﴾ [الأنبياء: ٨٨] أي: إذا وَقعوا فيها؛ لإيمانِهم.
(١) الترمذي (٣٥٠٥).