In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Patience is an active process, and not passive acceptance of our fate or giving up and doing nothing
When we face difficulty and adversity we never give up or go into despair. We understand that we are going to be tested and tried and are going to face much difficulty in our lives. We understand that God is aware of our difficulty and struggle. We try to help ourselves and change our fate to another fate that God may will for us. God does not help those who give up and not help themselves and change their attitude
Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls).
Ar-Ra’d 13: 11
Patience means that you try to pull yourself from defeat and adversity, get up and strive and patiently persevere. When you are knocked down, you pull yourself again, and try again, never loosing hope of God’s mercy or that after this difficulty ease will surely come, for God is merciful and caring
Allah puts no burden on any person beyond what He has given him. After a difficulty, Allah will soon grant relief.
At-Talaq 65: 7
Therefore, patience in Islam is not passively accepting our fate, playing dead and not doing anything about it, or giving up hope. This attitude is not patience, perseverance or faith in God. It is a defeatist attitude not becoming of a person who claims to have faith in God. It is the understanding of those who are ignorant and do not know or understand Islam or reflect on the Qur’an
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: (Whatever I have I will not hold or refuse to give it to you; whoever does not ask others and is content with what he has, Allah will make him self-sufficient; and whoever depends on himself, Allah will enrich him; and whoever patiently persevere, Allah will grant him the ability to be patient; No one was given a gift better or more encompassing than the gift of patience) narrated by Bokhari & Muslim after Sa’d Bin Malik
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