Page 44 - The Importance of Patience in the Qur’an

42 THE IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE IN THE QUR'AN

Like Prophet Ibrahim (as), believers also know that Allah creates
both the illness and the cure, and so they are not seized with despair
when they fall ill. On the contrary, they are grateful to our Lord for
those years in which He allowed them to live in health.
Understanding that a healthy life is only one of Allah's many gifts to
them, they continue to behave gratefully even when they are ill.
They also continue to be extremely grateful and steadfast in cases
of accident and injury. They hope that after they enter Paradise, Allah
will re-create them in such a fine form that it cannot be compared with
their worldly bodies. This is their hoped-for reward for their steadfast
patience when confronted with various difficulties. For this reason
they do not forget that whatever they have suffered here will entitle
them to a great recompense in the afterlife.
Those who are precluded from having faith, due to their
attachment to the world, cannot show patience in the face of such
events and so sink into great hopelessness and grief. For example,
those with crippled limbs say that they would rather die than live
with such a body; some even try to commit suicide. Believing that this

life is the only one that they have, they think that living with certain
defects and deficiencies makes life meaningless. Even if they do not
try to commit suicide, they develop a very unpleasant personality
and try to create problems for those around them. Whether they
accept their situation or not, there is no way that they can avert such
an event. If they put their trust in Allah, however, they may hope that
He will allow them to be reborn in Paradise with a brand new body
that is flawless, imperishable, and cannot be damaged. But if they do
not trust in Allah, their present life and their future life in the
Hereafter will be destroyed, for their ignorance will cause them to
rebel against Allah and be "rewarded" with Hell.
The behavior of those who live the Qur'an's morality is completely