Will Be Yours

JI~ DARUSSALAM DARUSSALAM GLOBAL LEADER [N ISLAMIC BOOKS Riyadh • Jeddah • AI-Khober • Sharjah Lahore • London • Houston• New York Explanation of Symbols Used 6 Introduction 7 Chapter One "Be Patient and Paradise Will Be Yours" 15 Chapter Two Patience Is ... ? 17 Chapter Three The Virtues of Patience 25 Chapter Four Types of Patience 31 Chapter Five Degrees of Patience 3.9 Chapter Six Categories of Patience 45 Chapter Seven Patience at All Times 53 Chapter Eight Developing the Quality of Patience 75 Index of Hadeeths 87 Bibliography 88 A Muslim is encouraged to utter certain phrases at the mention of Allaah, His Messengers, His Angels, the Sahaabah, or other righteous Muslims. The phrases are presented below and the reader is advised to utter the complete phrase when he comes across any of these symbols or abbreviation: Phrase Mentioned With Transliteration Meaning Subhaanahuu wa Glorified and ~ Allaah's Name ta'aa/aa Exalted is He May the peace Prophet Sal/al/aahu 'alayhi and blessing of ~ Muhammad wa sallam Allaah be on him A Prophet or an ~\ 'Alayhis Salaam Peace be on him Angel May Allaah be Radiyal/aahu ~ A companion pleased with 'anhu him May Allaah be More than two Radiya/1/aahu $, pleased with companions 'anhum th Pm May Allaah have A past scholar or Mercy on him .JJI ""'" J Rahimahullaah righteous Muslim A female Radiyal/aahu May Allaah be ~ companion 'anhaa pleased with her ,)\.a)I~ 'AlayhimusPeace be on Prophets or Angels (>\...JI_, SalaatWa-Salaam them Naseehah {Advice) and its position in the Religion All Praise is to Allaah, we praise Him, seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evils of our souls and evils of our deeds. One whom Allaah guides none can lead him astray, and one whom He misguides, none can guide him. We bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and We bear witness that Muhammad ~ is His Servant and His Messenger.

"O you who believe! Fear Allaah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of lslaam." [Aal lmraan (3): 102] "O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Aadam), and from him (Aadam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allaah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allaah is Ever an All-Watcher over you." [An-Nisaa' (4): 1] o~+: 1_; i,l)~ ~1 r;i1 ~( ~Jf ,~~ "O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth.

He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allaah and His Messenger ~ he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and made to enter Paradise}." [AIAhzaab (33): 70-71] As for what follows: Verily the most truthful speech is the Word of Allaah and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him], and the worst of affairs are the newly-invented matters. Every newly-invented matter is an innovation, every innovation is a going astray and every going astray is in the Fire. [Il Giving Naseehah is A Characteristic of the Prophets One of the major characteristics of the [1] This is the famous Khutbat AI-Haajah which the Prophet ~ would recite whenever he was going to deliver a sermon, make a speech . See 'Khutbat AI-Haajah' of Shaykh Muhammad Naasirudeen AI-Albaanee (AI-Maktab Allslaamee, Damascus, 1980) for its authentication and further details. caller to Allaah - indeed, it should be a major characteristic of the believer - is that very important characteristic of giving advices. Being from the people of Naseehah or having the characteristic of being 'Naasih' is something that Allaah has commanded this Ummah with.

It is also one of the important characteristics that the Prophets came with. Allaah informs us that when the people of Nooh ~I accused him of being upon misguidance and error with their saying: "Verily, we see you in plain error.'' [AI-A'raaf (7): 60]; he rejected that and responded that he was giving them sincere advice: ~~ }~~ J.,.. ~ ~A ju~ ~ j_;~ ,.. ~l, J_) , . ,, ~t-"{0 ;., ~~_) r-~ 0 ~ \ ~j .- ~5~ 1 ~ 7' ~ j{l, j:j "[Nooh (Noah)] said: "O my people! There is no error in me, but I am a Messenger from the Lord of the 'Alameen (mankind, jinns and all that exists)! I convey unto you the Messages of my Lord and give sincere advice to you. And I know from Allaah what you know not." [AI-A'raaf (7): 61-62] Similarly, Allaah ~ tells us that when Hud &;§I began to call to Allaah; his people referred to him as being upon 'foolishness': "The leaders of those who disbelieved among his people said: 'Verily, we see you in foolishness, and verily, we think you are one of the liars."' [AI-A'raaf (7): 66]; so he retorted and said: "O my people!

There is no foolishness in me, but (I am) a Messenger from the Lord of the 'Alameen (mankind, jinns and all that exists)! I convey unto you the Messages of my Lord, and I am a trustworthy adviser (or well-wisher) for you." [AI-A'raaf (7): 67-68] So there is no doubt that the characteristic of giving advice for the sake of Allaah - that is the characteristic of being 'Naasih' - is from the characteristics of the Prophets, just as it should be with the callers to Allaah and all of the believers. So this affair of Naseehah is something, which is fundamental and a most important characteristic for every Muslim. Jarir bin 'Abdullah ~ said: "Amma B'adu (now then), I went to the Prophet :i and said, 'I give my pledge of allegiance to you for lslaam.' The Prophet :i conditioned (my pledge) for me to be sincere and true to every Muslim so I gave my pledge to him for this. By the Lord of this mosque!

I am sincere and true to you (Muslims)."l2 J Also, Tamim Ad-Dari narrated: Allaah's Messenger :i said three times: "The religion is Naseehah (sincere advice) ." {Ad-Deen' Naseehah) The people asked, "To whom?" The Prophet :i replied: "To Allaah and to His Book and to His Messenger and to the leaders of the Muslims and the common folk (all the Muslims).'1-31 [2] AI-Bukhaaree. [3] Muslim The Golden Advice Series In response to the obligation of giving Naseehah and · its obvious need in our Ummah at the present time, DARUSSALAM PUBLICATIONS has come up with The Golden Advice Series which was orginally published by Deen Communications Limited, Nigeria . This series will, lnsha Allaah, contain several books; each of which is devoted to an advice given from the texts of lslaam (the Qur'aan and the Sunnah) with its explanation as provided by the esteemed scholars or people of knowledge. The advice range from the most important issue (Tawheed or worshipping Allaah alone), to morals and also issues of business transactions. Each book comes in an easy-to-read size but the contents are highly beneficial, Bi lthnillaah ! In this first phase, ten pieces of advice have been treated.

It is our hope that, lnsha Allaah, more will be added in the days ahead. This book centers on the Naseehah of the Prophet ~ on remaining patient! Everything that is correct in the books of The Golden Advice Series is from Allaah ~ - and to Him is all the praise; every mistake or error is from our imperfection and from Shaytaan - and we seek refuge in Allaah from him! We ask Allaah ~ to accept this effort of ours as an act done purely and sincerely for His Face and that He does not allow anyone or anything else 13 to have a share in it. The end of our Du'aa' is that all praise is for Allaah, Lord of the worlds.

And may His peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad, his family, his Companions and those who follow him till the Day of Reckoning! Aameen.