Zakir Naik – What is the Significance of Patience

Doctor Zakir, since, Ramadan

is the month of that trains your mind

towards patients,

Could you tell the viewers about the significance

of patience?

As far as the word patience is concerned,

that is sabr, It's mentioned in the Quran

102 times, and it is one of the

most important virtues in Islam.

And through patience, you can come close with

Allah

And the Quran says in several places that

Allah is those who are patient.

Allah says in Suri Baqarah chapter number 2

verse 45

that seek Allah's help with patience, perseverance, and

prayer.

And it is indeed hard except for those

who are humble.

Allah says in Suri Baqarah chapter number 2,

verse number 153.

That, oh, you believe,

seek Allah's help with patience, perseverance,

and prayer. For verily,

Allah is with those who patiently persevere.

Allah repeats a similar message in Surah Baqarah

chapter number 2, verse number 155

to verse number 157,

that

surely we will test you with something of

fear and hunger,

with loss

of goods and lives

and fruits

of toils,

and

those are successful,

those who patiently persevere.

And the verse continues,

and

when struck with the calamity,

they say,

that from him we come and to him

we return. From Allah

we come and to him is our return.

The Allah talks about patience, about perseverance.

Allah says in the Quran in Surah Al

Imran, chapter number 3, verse number 200. That

all you believe,

persevere in patience

and constancy

and strengthen each other so that we may

prosper.

Allah says in the Quran in Surihud chapter

number 11 verse number 150.

And be steadfast

in patience,

for verily, Allah will not suffer

the reward of those who are righteous.

Allah repeats the message in Surah Nihal, chapter

number 16, verse number 27.

That, be patient. For very little patience is

from Allah.

And one of the criteria

to go to Jannah

is sabr. That's patience. Allah says in the

Quran, in Suri Al Asr, chapter number 103

was in 1 to 3.

Indeed,

mankind is in a state of loss, except

those who have faith,

those who have righteous deeds, those who exalt

people to truth, and those who exalt people

to patient and perseverance.

So one of the criteria I go to

Jannah

is that you should have sabr.

The minimum full kite that you go to

Jannah, iman, righteous deeds, exoning people to truth,

exoning people to patient proceedings. If any one

of them is missing under normal circumstances, you

shall not go to Jannah.

Because Allah says

that patience is a requirement. If Allah wants

to forgive you, it's a different question. As

Allah says in Surin Nisa chapter 4 was

48. And Surin Nisa chapter 4 was 116.

If Allah pleases,

he may forgive any sin. But the sin

of Sheikh, he'll not forgive. But under normal

circumstances, if any one of these 4 criteria

are missing, you should not have the Jannah.

And one of them is Sabar.

And

in the Quran, in Surah Sharah chapter 94,

verse 56,

says,

After every difficulty,

there is reward. After every difficulty, there is

success. That means, hard times are there, but

Insha'Allah, in the end, there is success. So

we have to be on the straight path,

we have to do sabr,

and

the translation of sabr as I mentioned, it

is patience,

it

leads

to self restraint.

And sabar also means

constancy.

It means forbearance.

It means endurance.

It means perseverance. There are various different shades.

And if a person

is patient,

then it gets in success. A person who's

impatient, he gets irritated,

he gets angry,

he is very short-tempered,

he may fire some of his staff, he

may lose his school,

he may behave badly with other people. So

impatiently

is very wrong.

Think what you can do, you cannot do

because of impatience.

And if a person

is calm and

sober, he can think properly and success

is more closer to him. An impatient person,

he gets violent, he gets irritated, he gets

frustrated,

and the thing which he can do cannot

be done. Now the patience converts a thing

which I can't do into a thing which

I can do.

And patience is very important for success in

this world as well as the