Is a person rewarded for the hardship of intense heat, bitter cold, storms, and similar weather phenomena that weaken their ability, especially in light of current climate changes?
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The Muslim is rewarded for every affliction he experiences. Everything that befalls him, be it fatigue, illness, worry, sorrow, harm, or grief, God expiates his sins through it, even a thorn that pricks him. Some scholars have mentioned that heat is a cause for expiation of sins. Thus, calamities, heat, and cold are a type of suffering through which God expiates sins.
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