Al-Arbaʿin for Doctors

sons and what not, but was always optimistic and that paid
huge dividends as one can find in his biography.

Emotional support to terminally sick

Hadith 31

Narrated Anas bin Malik H that the Prophet r said, “None

of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling
him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: O Al-
lah!" Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let
me die if death is better for me.' (Bukhari 5671)
After exhausting all the medical means so many pa-
tients in our care gradually elapse into the hands of the angel
of death. Death is inevitable and wherever the hospital is lo-
cated patients do die there. Often in terminal stages many
people are in severe pain and discomfort with depressed
mood due to the disease and they wish for death and some
even request for termination of their lives so as to avoid the
sufferings of disease. In these tough moments we must con-
sole the patient so that he does not take any extreme step and

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