Patience
Patience
قال علی علیه السلام: الْعَجْزُ آفَةٌ، وَالصَّبْرُ شُجَاعَةٌ وَالْوَرَعُ جُنَّةٌ وَنِعْمَ |
Patience
وَاصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ، هود:115 |
Patience in the Quran
Summary: Patience is one of the great virtues in Islam. Patience means the believer’s resistance against problems in order to grow closer to God. |
A Lesson from Imam Kazim (a.s)
Imam Musa ibn Jafar (a.s) is known as Kazim. That is because he used to be kind even to those who treated him badly. |
Formidable Weapon
Summary: “By offering resistance against this violent instinctive passion, and by remaining patient against this great sin, which was tantamount to waging war against the forces representing the total truth for the sake of forces which were the manifestation of total blasphemy, not only did Hurr rescue himself, but jumped into the kingdom of paradise from the very brink of fire.” |
The importance of patience as an Islamic principle
According to the holy Quran Islamic principles are based on patience, persever |
Patience – A Formidable Weapon
The basic premise then, of sabr, is of freeing oneself from the desires of this world. If one were to be enslaved by their carnal appetite, at some point man could choose to neglect obedience to God by fulfilling obedience to desire. At this important crux, man can forgo honor, freedom and dignity in order to fulfill his material needs and welcome false gods and deities into his heart. |