Prophet (S) emphasised quite a bit that having patience is sooooo important. So important.
So how do you learn patience?
Ez question, but lets see if some of you guys can actually like word out the answer.
Here’s my try to at least answer it in my way:
Yet, i still lack it…being patient…
with certain things…
A good reference indeed !
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Patience is a great virtue. The person who practices patience and does not speak in anger, his speech is not his speech, it is God who makes him speak. The Muslims should act with patience and should not return the opponent's harshness and should not be abusive in response to abuse. It is not necessary that a person who falsifies one should refer to him with respect. There were many examples of this in the life of the Holy Prophet(sa).... There is nothing like patience but patience is a very difficult thing to adopt in practice. God supports him who is patient.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Oct 1905 [Malfoozaat vol.8, p. 200]
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will write some more later...
Oh wow, very cool.
Thanxs for the reference Zalim.
smiles i don’t know where to start, so i’m just going to go wherever my typing fingers take me
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Patience…sabr, is part of iman. I heard somewhere that Allah swt always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him…i guess sometimes u just got to be patient and stick it out…life is hard, life is easy, live is full of joy, life is full of sorrow, but u gotta remember that life is beautiful. Everything that comes is a test for us from Allah swt, the good times and the bad times…sabr is part of our iman…and its not something Allah swt gives us, its something we have to develop ourselves..something that has to come within…and in the end when we overcome our harship(s), we are only better for it, stronger for it.
Kohal, i guess as time goes by, as we encounter more adversities, experience more joys, as we keep living we will keep learning…you know those lines of jibran where he says..hmm, why don’t i just quote them:)
*Then a woman said, “Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.”
And he answered:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.*
Yikes
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! I didn’t mean to post the whole poem, but i couldn’t help it–i swear
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I guess my point was that, as we go through life, what we experience will increase our capability for understanding…Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle., our tolerance of intolerance…If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it, our perception of anger…For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back, our willingness to live and let live…Everyone needs to be loved… Especially when they do not deserve it, our realization of the temporarity of this world, and this life…You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
Alright, alright, you’re probably thinking ‘Gq enuff already’
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Just remember to do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.
And above all—to develop patience/sabr…to develop your iman, remember Allah swt, and remain thankful to Him…no matter what.
I’m out. Fee AmaanAllah
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GQ, i absolutely luv that poem…& yes, the whole thing.I’ve heard of Jibran; but, i’ve never read any of his work other than this one. Thanxs for sharing it.