Allah Has Made Patience The Means For Attaining His Love:
Allah has made patience like a horse that never gets tired — an army that can never be defeated and a strong Fortress that can never be breached.
Patience and victory are twin brothers, For victory comes with patience, relief comes with distress and ease comes with hardship. Patience is of more help to the one who has it than men, as it helps without any need For equipment or numbers and its relationship to victory is like that of the head to the body.
“Verily, he who Fears Allah with obedience to Him (by abstaining From sins and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds), and is patient, then surely, Allah makes not the reward of the Muhsinun (good-doers) to be lost.” (Yusuf 12:90)
Allah has connected Success to patience and piety, and the believers understand that.
Allah says: “O you who believe! Endure and be more patient (than your enemy), and guard your territory by stationing army units permanently at the places from where the enemy can attack you, and fear Allah, so that you may be successful.” (Al ‘Imran 3:200)
Allah tells us that He loves those who are patient, and that is the greatest encouragement.
Allah says:“And Allah loves As-Saabirun (the patient).” (Al ‘Imran 3:146)
The Prophet Muhammad (saw) said that patience is a light. (Muslim).
The characteristic of light is that it shows us the way and allows us to see clearly. How does patience do this?
Patience is linked with Hope and Trust in God. When something bad happens, we can Force ourselves to be patient by reminding ourselves that with hardship comes ease and that after a period of hardship God gives relief.
We can only be truly patient when we realize that everything is From God, and that is how everything is illuminated. It is the opposite of darkness and impatience.
Impatience is darkness because it Frustrates us, we can behave rashly and we do not see the wisdom in the delay.
Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (May Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah has not bestowed any Blessing upon His slaves then taken it away and replaced it with patience, but what He has compensated them with is better than what He has taken away.
So,the point is that — if we want to be close to our Lord, then keep patience in all situations. It is necessary For us to hold on to patience in order to be Firm on Allah's Commands and Truth so that we can Succeed in this Life and the Hereafter.
May Allah(swt) include us among His patient servants.(Ameen).
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