Q: How Can One Be Patient Upon Trial?

❝ When Allah blesses you with a chance to help and support your brother, recognise it as a true blessing! Consider yourself the one being helped. Allah has bestowed upon you the blessings to help others and cleanse yourself. You are a mere vessel of opportunity—either you help or you don’t. Remember, Allah will always find a way to support and aid His faithful slaves. Allah selected you and preferred you for the opportunity to be presented to. But if you don’t help yourself by giving charity and reject this blessing of Allah, you have no one to help you and you are accountable for every penny. The angels will make Duah against you and your fortune sooner or later will diminish as it’s void of the blessings of Allah. Exactly what happened to those before you. ❞

— Shaykh Musa Jibril حفظه الله

I am weary of life.

If death were sold, I would buy it,

longing for Allah, yearning to meet him.

They asked, are you sure of your deeds?

No, not at all.

But I love Him, and I think well of Him.

Would He punish me while I love Him?

وغادرنا سفول الليل قاصرا

فلا نمنا ولا ذقنا الأمان

وأعوام مضت والعين تبكي

جميعا كلنا في الأسري عاناه

مطاعهم لعل القلب يحنو

ونسرخ تحت وطئتهم كفانا

ولكن القلوب غدت حديدا

وفيها الحقد قد بلغ العلامه

حياة كلها قهر وظلٌ

الا يا موت زرنا في ضحانا

اما والله لا ارهاب فينا

وعار ان تصدق ايا اخانا

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه اللّٰه :

"Each time a charitable person gives, he feels his heart expanding and his breath relieved, as if a robe of iron were loosening for him.

Whenever he gives, it loosens, relaxes and expands; his happiness grows even stronger and his joy increases."

[The Invocation of God | Pg. 38]

Ibn Rajab رحمه الله said:

يا من ضاع عمره لا شيء استدرك ما فاتك في ليلة القدر فإنها تحسب بالعمر.

O you who have wasted your life, nothing can make up for what you’ve lost except the Night of Decree (Laylatul Qadr), for indeed, its value is equal to a lifetime.

(191)كتاب لطائف المعارف فيما لمواسم العام من الوظائف - ط ابن حزم

وكلُّ شيءٍ حُرمتَ منهُ؛ رُحمتَ مِن شرّه.

And everything you were deprived of, you were spared from its harm.

انما هي ايام قلائل والموعد الجنة

It is but a few days and Jannah is the promise

Ibn Qayyim رحمه الله said:

التناسب الذي بين الأرواح من أقوى أسباب المحبة فكل امرىء يصبو إلى ما يناسبه

The compatibility between souls is one of the strongest causes of love, for every person is drawn / yearns for what suits them.

(67)كتاب روضة المحبين ونزهة المشتاقين - ط العلمية

A believer never enjoys his sin, never finds his delight completed. Rather, even while committing the sin his heart is faced with grief, though the intoxication of desire covers up his feeling of it.

If the heart ever becomes void of this remorseful ache and the joy of sinning overpowers any feeling of remorse, then one should doubt one's faith, and cry over the death of his heart.

Were the heart alive, the committing of sin would make it sad, upbraid and constrict it, and it would sense it.

A wound, after all, does not cause pain to a corpse.

[ Madarij al-Salikin ] Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzi