A high īmān gets you through the small every day as much as it gets you through the bigger and unexpected circumstances. It is usually the small every day that is a good gauge of where your īmān is. If you find yourself easily frustrated and quick to anger, chances are whatever aroused it was not warranted, rather it is a low īmān that is the culprit. Consider a person driving home from work, for example. When a person who…
One of the most difficult forms of patience is being patient with the unknown and the uncertain; when you don’t know what’s going to come, when you don’t know the ‘whys’ for whatever that’s happening, when you need definite answers but you’re left with questions and doubts… And this is why al-Khiḍr said to Prophet Mūsā, before accepting his request to impart sacred knowledge, ﴾And how can you have patience about a thing which you know not?﴿ al-Kahf:68 Bright side:…
Sufficient for us is Allāh, and most excellent is He in Whom we trust. Perhaps Allāh is testing to see NOT how great a patience you can observe, but how great a trust you can place in Him. Especially if Allāh has rectified your Dīn and much of your Dunyā. He subḥānah might leave a gap in your affairs, so to speak. An unrectified gap. And that gap needs to be filled by you with tawakul (complete and total trust…