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PatienceA Test of Submission |
This article examines why humans lose patience and compel others despite God’s warnings. God commands us to resort to patience God commands us to be patient in the Quran: [16:127] You shall resort to patience - and your patience is attainable only with God's help. Do not grieve over them, and do not be annoyed by their schemes. [42:43] Resorting to patience and forgiveness reflects a true strength of character. [21:37] The human being is impatient by nature. I will inevitably |
show you My signs; do not be in such a hurry. Patience is a quality of submission requiring composure and endurance while the qualities of compulsion are obsession, duress and urgency. Satan terrorizes us to lose our patience [33:10] When they came from above you, and from beneath you, your eyes were terrified, your hearts ran out of patience, and you harbored unbefitting thoughts about GOD. God Forbids Compulsion [2:256] There shall be no compulsion in religion: the right way is now |
distinct from the wrong way. Anyone who denounces the devil and believes in GOD has grasped the strongest bond; one that never breaks. GOD is Hearer, Omniscient. [21:37] The human being is impatient by nature. I will inevitably show you My signs; do not be in such a hurry. [70:19] Indeed, the human being is anxious. Questioning We are reminded in the Quran that all of us are subject to questioning except God. Cont’d on page 2 |
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