Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech
Sickness
Sickness-المرض
- Sickness is [a form of] confinement of the body.
1ـ اَلمَرَضُ حَبْسُ البَدَنِ.
- There are two things that should not be scorned: sickness and the poor relative.
2ـ شَيْئانِ لايُؤْنَفُ مِنْهُما: اَلمَرَضُ، وذُوالقَرابَةِ
المُفْتَقِرِ.
- One who hides his sickness from the physicians has betrayed his body.
3ـ مَنْ كَتَمَ الأطِبّاءَ مَرَضَهُ خانَ بَدَنَهُ.
- Whoever conceals his hidden ailment, his physician becomes incapable of curing him.
4ـ مَنْ كَتَمَ مَكْنُونَ دائِهِ عَجَزَ طَبيبُهُ عَنْ شِفائِهِ.
- Sickness in one of the two confinements.
5ـ اَلمَرَضُ أحَدُ الحَبْسَيْنِ.