Page 73 - The Importance of Patience in the Qur’an

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and steadfast. (Surah Al 'Imran, 146)

For these reasons, Allah declares that the faithful should race
each other to acquire this morality: "O you who believe, persevere
in patience and constancy, vie in such perseverance; strengthen
each other, and heed Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful" (Surah Al 'Imran, 200).
In addition, remember that life comes and goes just as quickly for
those who live morally as for those who do not. Those who exhibit
impatience when facing the tests that Allah creates while they are in
this world, who revolt against them by becoming impatient, and
who are not constant in their morality and worship one day will die

and find themselves between Heaven and Hell. Those who choose
patience and surrender to Destiny spend their temporary life here in
the finest possible way and will enter Paradise due to their trust in
Allah. Those who spend their life being impatient, and complaining
about their difficulties and troubles will find themselves in the
darkness of Hell, just as they lived here in the darkness of irreligion,
and will realize that they have sacrificed eternal life for a short
temporary life on Earth.

This book seeks to warn such people before that day comes and
before they say with great regret: "If only we had really listened
and used our intellect, we would not have been Companions of
the Blaze" (Surat al-Mulk, 10). It also invites everybody to live in the
patience, which opens the way to all good things, and to vie with
others in living this morality.