The Chapter On Patience And Perseverance
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The importance of patience and weaknesses in fulfilling the commandments of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is emphasized, along with the need for constant monitoring and adoption of the three verses of the statement. The negative impact of hesitation and fear on people, including loss of loved ones, is emphasized, along with the importance of patient behavior and testing behavior with fear, hunger, lack of food, and illness. The importance of patient forgiveness and tests for those striving hard for their cause is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of finding a measure of one's success and reward, and offers tests for those striving hard for their cause.AI Generated Transcript ©
After he was done from the first chapter
or the early chapters and, in the other
study,
the chapter of Tawba.
What do you expect
he would would follow that with?
So we talked about a clause, sincerely to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We talked about Tawba,
repentance.
What do you expect the following chapter is
gonna be? If you think of a title
for the logical sequence of that, what would
that be?
Acceptance.
Good deeds.
Yeah.
Now he's done with Tawba. So he spoke
about Tawba in details.
What is the next thing you need to
do after Tawba?
Thank you Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Close to that.
I got you. Okay.
Then the following chapter he started with, actually,
Patience.
Why is that?
Because tababa requires water demand.
Once you
commit, once you commit to it, once you
repent, what do they need from you?
To prove it, to remain steadfast, to stay
patient.
And that's why he naturally,
he said after a Tawba, what you need
is.
And he started the chapter with multiple ayat
from the Quran. So today we're gonna talk
about these verses that I mentioned, the meaning
of Sabr.
The
chapter on patience and perseverance.
And Surah Alayhi Imran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
conclude the Surah with this ayah, all you
who believe,
which means endure,
be patient,
which means,
this is why it requires
mutual.
Like, you know, you you you push back
and and you withdraw, and there's always that
mutual
exercise of patience.
Which means remain steadfast on this path.
And be conscious of Allah.
So they become successful.
So I mentioned different levels. So the they
say the first part of the
which means be patient.
That means what?
Depends on on the different levels of patients.
So they say, you need to exercise patience,
in the face of 3 things. We've talked
about this multiple times, especially if you attend
with.
The hadith before that when we talked about
this, when we talked discussed the subject of.
It's actually it's it's it's shining with light.
It helps you with fire, you know, to
stay, remain steadfast.
But this
is the sabr
The 3 levels of patience of it. The
first one is to exercise patience in regards
to fulfilling
the commandment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Like
what?
Waking up for fajr. Fasting the month of
Ramadan. Paying the zakah. Being beautiful to your
parents. You know, being good to your family.
All these obligations, you're required to do
that. Why do you need patience for this
anyway?
Because any
that'd be prescribed for us to do, such
as coming for salah, making wudu, pay your
zakah,
any taklief
has a degree
of hardship.
And that's why the alhamdulillah called this taklief.
At taklief, you are a mukallaf. When you
reach you reach out to puberty
and you're conscious alhamdulillah and Muslim, you are
mukallaf, means you are now accountable for your
actions.
And what does that mean? What does this
actually require from you? It requires a level
degree of hardship that you have to endure.
What kind of hardship are we talking about?
There's hardship there's physical hardship,
which is a hardship that you get on
your body. Like what? Waking up from bed,
and and during the the cold water when
you make wudu, all these kind of things.
And there is the the hardships,
the psychological emotion hardship.
Which means basically kind of like you have
to remain steadfast.
That you all there's always that reminder for
you to keep doing this and doing that.
Observe your thoughts and to be on the
straight path all the time. That's that's
a constant reminder for sometimes it's really difficult.
There's financial hardship as well too. When you're
required to give zakah and give sadaqa and
assist with your money and so on. So
there is always a degree of hardship when
it comes to fulfilling the obligation that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
upon us, and that requires patience.
For you to fulfill, that requires patience.
The second degree is against the the, the
sins.
And, obviously, this is basically
to to mean that full abstinence.
Stay away from drinking, from zina, from from
back biting, from lying,
all these kind of things.
So that requires also patience, because now you're
resisting.
Now if you look at these two things,
exercising or doing patience
in the face of the commandments of Allah
versus the prohibitions.
Which one is more virtuous and which one
do you believe is harder?
What do you guys think?
Which one is harder?
To endure patience fulfilling the commandments of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
Or endure patience resisting the sins and the
and the temptations?
Resisting temptations. Right?
Wow.
You fall you fall for temptation so quickly,
Ajamal.
Right?
I don't know. Maybe the olamah of the
past have a different view on these things.
So
they say, actually,
patience to fulfill the commandment is harder,
and it's more virtuous.
Because it requires what? Positive action.
Like you need to get out of your
way to do something.
But,
resisting resisting your sins, what is required from
you?
Negative actions, which means what?
Stay away from it. Don't do anything.
Now you're required not to go and buy
that drink. Just stay at home.
Don't go and and and do this. Stay
away from it, and how you're fine. That's
why,
technically speaking, technically speaking, doing the Ibadah is
harder
because there is a positive access you have
to fulfill. You have to get out of
your way to do something,
and the sin is just requires for me
just to say what you are, not even
thinking, not even doing anything, and you'll be
fine. You'll just be fine. But obviously, for
us,
the temptations all over around us right now,
it's easy for me to fall for the
sins. So the requirement to stay abstain from
the sin becomes harder on us in this
time and this generation.
Still though, it's more virtuous to endure patients
doing the Ayurveda
than abstaining from the sin.
There's another dimension, but we not the time
for it. That's basic the difference between
the sin of Adam versus the sin of
Iblis.
So what did Iblis do at Jema?
He
refused to fulfill a command.
In this case, actually the the order, the
command to prostrate.
And, what did he do?
He broke
one of those rules basically of abstinence.
And Allah forgave him for his sin, but
for Iblis,
return on yani,
subhanAllah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon him. That's
very dangerous to be careful.
So don't miss the commandments that Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, asks of you. So there are
3 categories of patience. We talked about 2.
Patience while doing the good deeds, patience to
stay away from the bad deeds. The third
one,
Now we need to we need to show
patience and perseverance against the of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, which you have no control over.
And the they say,
means what? Painful.
And means
convenient.
Like what?
So the Mulla'am Akhtar for example, the kadar
of what? The kadar of wealth.
The of prosperity.
The of peace.
Which we only think of this as being
something of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And may
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala continue to show us
with his mercy, and
continue this peace and tranquility we're living in.
But our brothers and sisters in Gaza, they
don't have that bliss and that that that
peace and tranquility that you're enjoying right now.
And it's funny that, subhanAllah, one day, after
Ramadan, after Eid, they wanted to take a
break.
Just to took a break
and go to the beach
and enjoy some recreational time on the beach
of Gaza, which is a very small strip
of beach right now that they are being
confined to.
Then you have all these crazy cabinets of
the Israeli Zionist cabinet go crazy about how
these people are having fun, you know, on
the beach while the water is still going
on.
Allahu
Akbar. Even just having a moment of joy,
is just it burns them from the inside.
Like
the the tongues are very obvious with their
hatred but what's what's in their heart is
even worse. So
may Allah make it easy for our brothers.
So the For them, they are dealing with.
Painful qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
they have to endure. Whether it's coming from
a disaster, natural disaster,
or coming from man made,
situations.
For us, many of us
dealing with this.
The the convenient.
Alhamdulillah.
You go home, you're safe, you drive your
car, there's no problem. You have no fear
of, lack of food or or drink and
so on. Always
Allah has made easy for you and facilitate
that for you. Requires some water, jamaal.
Lot of sugar.
Lot of sugar.
So sometimes and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
test this in many different ways. Like the
second one he says,
Allah subhanahu says, we shall try you and
test you. We certainly shall try and test
you with something of fear, hunger, loss of
wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings
to those who are persevering patient.
So Allah says, we're going to test you
with that.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continue to bless
you with his.
But nothing don't take anything for granted, Wala.
Never ever take anything for granted. And I
remember something,
there was
a moment of innocence, but shows
how much sometimes, yeah, we we don't value
things until we lose them.
During the war in Kuwait back in 1990,
1991,
I remember I was there, and obviously, the
that we had before, somehow they're gone because
of the war.
And there was there was one time with
my nephew, was a little kid, he was
maybe a few years old, young, maybe 5
or or 4.
One day he comes to his dad grabbing,
a toy, banana toy, plastic banana,
And he goes to her dad, he goes,
baba, baba,
can you bring us one of the, one
of these things but the real ones?
Well, at that moment, I look at his
dad, I can feel it in his heart.
He's unable to find, you know, a real
banana for his child in that moment.
And just thinking about it, what
are now, I'm a blessing.
We have, we go through, but we don't
pay attention until they're gone.
And may Allah subhanahu, but again, make it
easier for our brothers
and restore that peace and tranquility and provide
for them from sources they cannot account for.
So here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling
us that, look, the test is coming. It's
not a matter of if it comes,
it's when it comes.
However,
some people are tested with what?
How fear.
Out of what? Losing their job,
enemy,
someone you know, harassing them, whatever.
There's an element of fear over there. Others
will be tested with,
hunger,
lack of food,
or sometimes honestly unable to eat the food
that you
have for whatever reason. Illness, sickness,
something. They're unable to eat, SubhanAllah. So they
start feeling hungry even if the food is
there.
Some
which means diminishing of wealth. Alhamdulillah, they had
a job that was paying them 100,000 a
year. Suddenly they dropped down to 50,000.
And now suddenly they're just kind of like
panicking
because of that. Oral,
illness, for example, loss of loved ones around
them. They have martialed out multiple people and
suddenly they're gone.
And was this child that became very famous
on on in the social media
for his beautiful recitation of the Quran and
the Nasheed on the loss of his family.
With family, 50 of them in 1 one
Yani house.
And
a bomb came and took 35 out of
them completely.
And as they were operating on the some
of his relatives, he was just chanting those
beautiful words,
kind of like,
giving himself some peace and solace and,
condoling himself with that. SubhanAllah. May Allah make
it easier for me.
Diminishing also of fruits.
Some they say, that could be
be out of season.
Like you don't get it? No no fruit
comes out at all?
And some they say, no. The exact same
fruit is now is becoming smaller and smaller.
But on the day of judgement or at
least before the day of judgement, from the
signs of the day of judgment, when the
Isa alaihi salam
comes, there will be barakah.
There will barakah in that time
that the people will be eating things just
like crazy amount, and the size of fruits
and food will be crazy, literally. Like the
prophet talked about even
pomegranates.
He said the of the pomegranates, just the
the the peel of the pomegranates
is so massive, so huge that a group
of people can sit underneath.
It's like a tent. Can you imagine how
big that is at Jemaah?
It's a shrub but imagine how that would
look like as part of the Barakah. Is
it true physically or exaggeration? Still there's Barakah
in the food. But
sometimes the diminishing of that will be what?
What is normal size is shrinking, subhanAllah,
and is not given the fruit that is
usual to us. So may Allah,
continue to bless with the.
He says,
give the glad talent the good news for
those who persevere in patience.
He says,
What reward
those of persevering patients will
get? The prophet says.
Those who persevere in patience shall shall get
their reward with absolutely no measure.
What does that mean? And we mentioned that
multiple times if you guys remember.
For everything of value, you measure with a
certain unit,
right? You measure with certain units.
So,
if you want to weigh
steel, use tons as a as a measuring
unit.
If you'd like to weigh meat, you go
with pounds or kilograms.
If you wanna weigh, for example, gold, you
go with grams. You go with with the,
diamond, you go with the curt.
And if you go with something less than
that, you go with
the the least amount
to make sure no nothing is goes to
waste.
So in terms of good deeds, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala weighs the good deeds with what?
What is the measuring item or or or
unit for for measuring good deeds?
The weight of an atom, he says. Can
even weight an atom, Ajamal?
I mean for us, we don't have that
measuring unit to even to do that. But
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, he will measure your
good deeds even the size of a weight
of an atom. This is how valuable your
good deeds are.
So everything gonna be measured.
Now on top of all of this, patience,
even that amount,
it's not enough.
So Allah says, look, you're gonna get your
reward without his help.
Absolutely no measure for this.
And if you're receiving a reward from the
most generous, what do you expect to get
from subhanahu wa ta'ala?
So what's left for your
imagination? To think what kind of reward you'll
get for patience? Therefore, there is
literally
one of the the the good deeds that
are missing in our time today is patience.
With
the fast pace of lifestyle and the instant
gratification that we get from things and so
on, people tend to be
losing their patience and losing their tempers, and
And as a result, losing their jobs, losing
their marriages, losing their pool,
tons of other things happen because we're just
not being patient. May Allah forgive us.
Here Allah says and I'm going with this
quickly inshallah.
And then, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, verily, whosoever show
patience and forgives,
that would that would truly be from the
things recommended by Allah
Meaning, persevering patience and forgiving. That's dealing with
the people.
Like, be patient with them and forgive them.
Now the they say, look, you forgive if
there was if there was hope for a
slah.
Like if you if your forgiveness
is gonna make things better, then you should
forgive them.
But if your forgiveness is gonna make them
actually become even worse,
no.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he wants to
also
to show to to have as a result
of that. But here, it's for dealing with
people.
Is it okay to avoid people all the
time? Well, the prophet
Those who
intermingle with people
and endure patience in dealing with them better
than those who isolate themselves from people to
avoid dealing with the people.
So, yeah, you have to be with the
people and then you're patient with their dealings
regardless
how how hard and harsh it might be.
In order for for you to do that,
seek that patience or at least endure these
these events in your life with patience and
salah.
Patience and salah. So when you feel distressed,
go back to salah and endure patience.
Because Allah will be with those who persevere
in patience. That
that, you know, being with you,
withness, we would say, is means actually to
give you to give you support, and hopefully
reward inshallah.
We surely will,
shall try you till we test those who
strive hard for the cause of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and those who persevere in patience.
Like Allah said, we're gonna we're gonna scrutinize
you.
We're gonna expose everybody to some certain tests,
and those who are truly genuine with their
iman and yaqeen,
they will stand up.
So may Allah subhanahu wa makar some of
those who always stand out. About patients, but
remember,
never Raheemullah couldn't help it. He added these
ayaats before he comes with the hadith because
he believed it's extremely important that we exercise
patience in our life. Any question on your
mind? Yes.
Between logic and religion?
Well, I mean
he
had a whole book
encyclopedia on that.
Which means,
there is no contradiction between
between sound logic
and authentic,
text of religion.
Basically,
logic
logic or
religion is logical. Let me put it this
way. When it comes to faith, Islam to
be specific. It.
So therefore you will never find anything in
Islam will be will be not logical
understanding of it.
understanding of it.