, as indicated by His words, Mighty and Majestic:

“Until, when you are aboard ships and they sail with them on a favourable wind, and they rejoice in it” [Yūnus 22].

And His words:

“And He is the One who sends the winds as bearers of glad tidings before His mercy” [al-A‘rāf 57].

And His words:

“If He wills, He can still the wind, leaving them motionless on its surface” [al-Shūrā 33].”

Al-Qādī Abū Ya‘lā said: “A hadith conveying a similar meaning was related by Ibn Fūrak, though its chain of transmission has not reached me. It reports that he said: ‘This is the breath of my Lord, which I feel between my shoulders. The Hour has come upon you.’ Its meaning is: this is Allah’s relief for me, through which He dispelled my worries and sorrows, lifted the burden from my heart, and brought solace to my soul—what he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would experience in the times ahead in the form of increasing measures of