The Obligatory Patience.

[Ismail Dalbani]

It is of three kinds:         

.         Patience in performing what Allah made obligatory;

.         Patience in avoiding what Allah made unlawful;

.         Patience with hardships and calamities

Patience in performing the obligations is forcing oneself to perform the obligations like praying on time, fasting the month of Ramadan, attending the circles of knowledge to learn the Islamic obligatory knowledge, and other obligations, even if one feels lazy to do them.

Patience in avoiding what Allah made unlawful is restraining oneself from committing the sins. It takes a lot of effort to stop oneself from committing the unlawful, like leaving out the prayer, drinking alcohol, stealing, and other unlawful matters. It is one's nature to lean towards laziness and easy-coming pleasures, even if they are unlawful.

Patience with hardships and calamities is being patient—seeking the reward from God—with what bothers one, such as pain, hardship, poverty, sadness, or other afflictions that befall the person in this life, because this world is a place of calamities, tests, and a workplace, while the Hereafter is the place for judgment. For this type of patience to take place, one needs not to act or talk in a way that reflects one's impatience.

It is obligatory to refrain from objecting to Allah. Subjugating oneself to Allah is among the obligations of the heart.

Objecting to Allah is a blasphemous act. Many people fall into blasphemy because they do not subjugate themselves to Allah, rather, they object to Him.

The Muslim should be patient and should make an effort to train oneself in patience to get used to it. One should also rely on Allah in all one's matters.

May Allah protect us and keep us steadfast.
And Allah knows best.