Patience and Gratitude
عدة الصابرين وذخيرة الشاكرين
Ibn al-Qayyim's classic work on the virtues, types, and conditions of patience (sabr) and gratitude (shukr).
Table of Contents
INTRO Introduction 1 Chapter 17: The Sahâbah and Tabi'în on gratitude 2 Chapter 1: The Definition of Patience 3 4. Psychological patience without choice, such as patiently bearing an enforced 4 1. The motive of religion is strongest in controlling and defeating the whims and desires. 5 2. When whims and desires prevail, the religious motive is diminished. The doomed 6 3. There is a war that is raging between the motives of reason and religion, and the 7 3. In accepting Allâh's decree and ruling (qadâ' wa qadr). This is the advice given to 8 3. Patience in refraining from begging. There is a dispute as to whether begging from 9 5. Patience at times of fitnah when the Muslims are fighting Muslims. Patience in 10 Chapter 4: Good Patience and Bad Patience 11 Chapter 5: The Patience of noble people and the patience of ignoble people 12 Chapter 6: Ways of strengthening patience 13 5. We should think of what the person who commits wrong action has to lose, in this 14 14. We should know that Allâh has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life 15 Chapter 7: Man cannot do without patience 16 Chapter 8: What is the most difficult type of patience? 17 7. Allâh will reward those who have patience with a threefold reward: blessings, mercy 18 18. Allâh has mentioned that only those who practise patience and gratitude will benefit 19 20. Allâh has given a general ruling that whoever does not have faith and does not belong 20 22. Allâh has mentioned patience alongside the pillars of Islâm and îmân, as He has 21 Chapter 10: Ahâdîth about patience 22 Chapter 11: Sahâbah on the virtues of patience 23 Chapter 12: Patience at the time of bereavement 24 Chapter 13: Patience is half of Îmân 25 4. The whole of religion is hope and fear, and the true believer is the one who is both 26 Chapter 14: Patience and loving Allâh 27 3. Patience in accepting the decree of Allâh, as man realizes that Allâh is the only one 28 4. No kind of patience whatsoever. This is the lowest degree, and a person of this type 29 Chapter 15: Gratitude in the Qur'ân 30 Chapter 16: Ahâdîth on gratitude 31 Chapter 17: The Sahâbah and Tabi'în on gratitude
Details
- Category
- Ethics & Spirituality
- Madhab
- hanbali
- Subject
- ethics
- Original Language
- ar
- Available In
- en
- Written
- 751h (1350 CE)
- Volumes
- 1