“Do you know what this is?” They said:
“Allah and
His Messenger know best.” He said: “Man is the line
in the middle, and
these lines to his side are the sicknesses and
problems that assail
him from all places. If one misses him, another
will befall him. The
square is his life span, at his neck; and the
line outside it is (his)
hope.”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 37, Hadith 132