Excellence of Patience & Gratefulness

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INTRODUCTION Chapter One: The dictionary meaning of the word Sabr and its derivation and conjugation Chapter Two: The real essence of Sabr and the scholars’ views concerning it Chapter Three: Names of Sabr, in relation to its object Chapter Four: Difference between Sabr, Tasabbur, Istibar, and Musabarah Chapter Five: The categories of patience according to its conditions Chapter Six: The categories of patience according to a person’s strength, weakness, ability or inability to combat the forces of desire Chapter Seven: The categories of patience with regard to its object Chapter Eight: Patience can be divided into five categories: Obligatory, Desirable, Forbidden, Reprehensible and Permissible. below) Chapter Nine: Different levels of patience Chapter Ten: Division of patience into praiseworthy and blameworthy Chapter Eleven: Differences in the patience of the honorable and dishonorable people Chapter Twelve: Techniques that help in exercising patience Chapter Thirteen: Explanation of the fact that human beings can under no circumstance dispense with patience Chapter Fourteen: The most difficult type of patience that people can bear Chapter Fifteen: Patience (Sabr) in the verses of the Holy Qur’an Chapter Sixteen: Patience in the narrations of the Sunnah Chapter Seventeen: The sayings of the Companions and their followers about patience Chapter Eighteen: Actions connected with affliction like crying, wailing, tearing the clothes, actions of pre-Islamic period and the like. Chapter Nineteen: Patience is half of faith Chapter Twenty: Exposition of the controversy regarding which one is better: patience or thankfulness Chapter Twenty-One: Judgment between the two groups and the determination of each case Chapter Twenty-Two: The argument between scholars as to who is better: the grateful rich or the patient poor and the exposition of the correct view in this respect Chapter Twenty-Three: The case for the poor as explained in the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the sayings of the early scholars and by analogical deduction The second illustration is as follows: Example 3: Example 4: Example 5: Example 6: Example 7: Example 8: Example 9: Example 10: Example 11: Example 12: Example 13: Example 14: Example 15: Example 16: Example 17: Example 18: Example 19: Example 20: Example 21: Example 22: Chapter Twenty-Four: The argument for the rich in their favor from the Qur’an, Sunnah, the reports of the early scholars and analogy The wealth spoke: They [the rich] argue: Note: Chapter Twenty-Five: Matters which are contradictory to patience and which cause harm and damage it SECTION SECTION Chapter Twenty-Six: Sabr as one of the attributes of the Lord, as He is called al-Sabur and al-Shakur SECTION CONCLUSION