Page 270 - Seekers Guide Book

The Wisdom of Life

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55 I have a 15 year old son who is very
short-tempered. How should I convey

the importance of patience to him?

ou do not have to change the boy, you have to change
Yyourself. All children become so as a result of the
pampering of their parents. You and your spouse should
stop pampering your child. All parents without doubt
and without exception pamper their children. Even
my father used to pamper me when I was a child and
whenever my uncle used to stop my father from doing so,
the latter would say that he did not do any pampering at
all. My father died when I was six years old and I was a
pampered boy until then.

56 Is there a limit to patience? What if

some community takes advantage of
our situation?

atience is a form of worship – then why a limit has
Pto be assigned to it? Patience is held as the highest
worship in the Quran, so will it have any limit? When
there is no limit to the reward to patience, why should
there be any limit to patience? The highest reward in the
Quran is for keeping patience and therefore there can be
no limit to it.

Exercising patience is actually continuing a process of
personality development, something that must continue

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