.:Tuesday, October 26, 2004:.
Friday: Sabr; beautiful innit..
I’ve heard and read the story of Yusuf AS a lot in both arabi and english. Yesterday I was listening to it again, this time it was Yasir Qadhi’s tafseer of the surah. Anyways as I was listening to it I kept paying attention to the different tests that Yusuf AS and Yaqoob AS went through and the amount of patience they had. subhanAllah to be able to reach to that degree of sabr! How beautiful is that.
In the lecture he was saying how "Sabrun jameel (beautiful patience)" was patience without complaining. And subhanAllah when you think about it what IS the point of complaining to the creation? I mean what is it in their hands that they can do? Give you some pity and awwws and it’ll be ok’s and stuff? Even if say they are the cause of your problem or it appears that they can help you solve your problem in reality without Allah swt willing for it they cant do anything.
Thinking about that made me remember something that a brother (wawa) told me once (more than 6months ago) when I was going through some stuff. He didn’t know what it was but he knew that I wasn’t really in a good state, al muhim. He told me that a group of brothers he knew, some of his friends I guess, he said that their motto for life was "Sabr bidoon Shakwa" (Patience without complaining). He said its not something that’s easy to reach, but if your able to its one of the sweetest things.
I remember a lecture/dars my mom gave at the masjid at least 2 maybe 3 years ago about sabr, and that shes going to give again today inshaAllah. Anyways one thing I remember from it was something she said it was a definition of sabr. I think Allahu ‘aalam that it was one of the early scholars of islam that gave this definition, al muhim the definition was "Al sabr, habs al lissan ‘an al tashakee wa mana’ al nefs ‘an al jaz’a." "Sabr is stopping the tongue from complaining and controlling the nefs from panic".
Thinking about this and other things I thought how beautiful it would be to have this type of patience, and subhanAllah how far away I am from even being close to it. No matter how hard the tests we face its will never come close to what those before us went through, but look at the difference in or reactions to the tests.
Another thing that in my opinions really beautiful is that:
It is from the sunnah of Allah that he will test his slaves, (‘ankaboot: 2 ). When Allah swt loves a people he tests them, these test are to purify them from their mistakes and their sins. The prophet SAWS said "When Allah swt loves a people he tries them, so he who becomes pleased with this trial and is patient then for him is the pleasure of Allah. And he who becomes displeased and un patient with this trial then upon him is the anger and wrath of Allah swt."
May Allah swt make us of those who when tested are patient. And may he make us of those who complain to him alone. Aameen.
chotu-meyeh
@ 10/26/2004 02:33:00 AM
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