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Patience
According to Quran and Sunnah

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A Test

The Noble Qur'an - 2:155

And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirin (the patient ones, etc.).

The Noble Qur'an - 29:2-3

Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: "We believe," and will not be tested. And We indeed tested those who  were before them....


The Hereafter is our Home

The Noble Qur'an - 29:64

And this life of the world is only amusement and play! Verily, the home of the Hereafter, that is the life indeed (i.e. the eternal life that will never end), if they but knew.


Man Was Created Impatient

Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Allah says,

(Verily, man was created very impatient;) Then, Allah explains this statement by saying,

(Apprehensive when evil touches him;) meaning, whenever any harm touches him he is frightful, worried and completely taken back due to the severity of his terror and his despair that he will receive any good after it.

(And suppressive when good touches him.) meaning, if he attains any blessing from Allah, he is stingy with it, not sharing it with others. He will withhold the right of Allah with that blessing. Imam Ahmad said that Abu `Abdur-Rahman informed them that Musa bin `Ali bin Rabah told them that he heard his father narrating from `Abdul-`Aziz bin Marwan bin Al-Hakim that he heard Abu Hurayrah saying, "The Messenger of Allah said,

«The worst thing that can be in a man is greedy impatience and unrestrained cowardice.» Abu Dawud recorded this Hadith from `Abdullah bin Al-Jarrah on the authority of Abu `Abdur-Rahman Al-Muqri', and this is the only Hadith through `Abdul-`Aziz with him.


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