unqualified expression in that sense.

He said: “In one of Ibn Battah’s letters to a friend, I saw that he mentioned these two reports—the hadith of Jābir, ‘When you see the wind, do not revile it,’ and the hadith of Ibn Hurayrah, ‘I find the breath of your Lord’—and quoted Ibn Qutaybah’s comments on the matter. He said: ‘The expression “You have breathing room in your affairs” means that you have ample scope. The words “from the breath of the Most Merciful” mean that distress is relieved and drought dispelled through it. One says, “O Allah, give me breathing room,” meaning, “Grant me relief.”’ He discussed this at length.”