Patience is Beautiful

Asalaamu Alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu



Patience is Beautiful​

Only a minority of people meet hardship with a strong bearing and a patient countenance. But we must consider this, though it may seem obvious, if you or I will not be patient then what else is there for us to do? Do you have an alternative solution? Do you know of any better provision than patience?


Those that achieve greatness most likely had to surmount an ocean of difficulties and hardships before finally achieving success. Know that each time you escape a difficulty, you will have to face another. Through this constant conflict, you must arm yourself with patience and a strong trust in Allah.


This is the way of the noble-minded: they face difficulties with firm resolution and they wrestle hardship to the ground.


Therefore be patient and know that your patience is only through Allah.
Have the patience of one who is confident of forthcoming ease, one who knows that there will be a good ending, one who seeks reward from his Lord, hoping, that by facing these difficulties, he will find expiation for his sins. Have patience, no matter what the difficulty and no matter how dark the road ahead seems. For truly, with patience comes victory, and with difficulty relief follows close behind.


After having read biographies of some successful people from the past, I became amazed at the amount of patience they displayed, at their ability to bear heavy burdens only to emerge as stronger human beings.
Hardship fell upon their heads like the lashing of freezing rain and yet they were as firm as mountains. And then, after a short time had passed, they were rewarded for their patience with, success.


Surah Ash-Sharh
6. Verily, with the hardship, there is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).


Surah Ar-Ra'd
22. And those who remain patient, seeking their Lord's Countenance, perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and spend out of that which We have bestowed on them, secretly and openly, and defend evil with good, for such there is a good end.

wasalam

Assalamu-alaikum

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very well said sister, Patience is really a virtue and its one of the tools through which we can achive the pleasure and help of allah SWT

And seek help in patience and As-Salât (the prayer) and truly it is extremely heavy and hard except for Al-Khâshi'ûn [i.e. the true believers in Allâh - those who obey Allâh with full submission, fear much from His Punishment, and believe in His Promise (Paradise,) and in His Warnings (Hell, )]. (45) (They are those) who are certain that they are going to meet their Lord, and that unto Him they are going to return. (46)

at another place it is said,

O you who believe! Seek help in patience and As-Salât (the prayer). Truly! Allâh is with As-Sâbirun (the patient.) (153)

even in Suran Asr Allah puts PATIENCE as one of the basic requirements of the people who are successfull,

By Al-'Asr (the time). (1) Verily, man is in loss, (2) Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma'ruf) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar) which Allâh has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allâh's Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic Monotheism or striving in his cause). (3)

May Allah bless us all with this virtue.