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SABR has been
described in the Quran as one of the great virtues of the
believers
What is SABR?
SABR has the
following meanings:
Patience: the
capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience
with calmness, self-control and without complaint
Forbearance:
Tolerance and restraint in the face of provocation
Composure: A calm
or tranquil state of mind
Equanimity: The
quality of being calm and even-tempered
Steadfastness:
Quality of being, firmly loyal, unswerving and unchanging
Firmness:
determination and resolution
Perseverance:
Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a
belief, or a purpose
Endurance: The
act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress
Self-constraint &
Self-control: fettering, shackling of various urges,
violent emotions and bad desires
In the Quran, SABR
has been used in all the above meanings at different places
as well as in the following meanings:
- To maintain patience,
composure, equanimity, self-control and endurance in the
face of difficulties, hardships, stress or inconveniences
that may come in living and doing things in the way
Prescribed by Allah
- To maintain
determination, resoluteness, steadfastness and perseverance
in abiding by Allah’s commands
- To steadily adhere to
the statutes of the Quran
- To maintain constancy
with Allah
In 70:5, Allah commands:
Faisbir sabran
jameelan
Which means:
- Persevere with the
beautiful perseverance
- Be patient with a beautiful patience
- Be steadfast with the best steadfastness
Allah says in the Quran:
-O you who believe ! Be
steadfast and be supreme in your perseverance [3:200]
-For your Lord’s [cause],
be patient and steadfast [74:7]
-For every hardship,
there is a relief or ease [94:5-6]
-Allah does not impose on
any self any more burden that it can bear [2:286]
When to show SABR?
- In harm, injury,
mischief, damage, poverty, bodily affliction, distress, lack
of means of subsistence, misfortune, calamity, a state of
pressing want [show patience, endurance, equanimity and
adherence to the Laws of Allah] [2:177]
- In the state of war
[show steadfastness] [2:250]
- In fear
- In hunger
- In case of loss of
money
- In case of loss of
lives
- In case of loss of
fruits [of your toil] [show patience, endurance, equanimity
and adherence to the Laws of Allah][2:155]
- On whatever may befall
[of calamities] [show patience, endurance, equanimity and
adherence to the Laws of Allah] [22:35]
- In the face of
rejection [show patience and endurance][6:34]
- When people make you a
laughing stock for your True convictions [show equanimity
and composure] [23:110-111]
- In seeking your Lord’s
Countenance [show steadfastness and perseverance][13:22]
- When wealth, fortune,
plenty or ease comes after poverty, misfortune, scarcity, or
hardship [show equanimity and adherence to Allah’s
laws][11:9-10]
- While waiting for Allah’s judgment [and results of your
actions] [show patience, calm and tranquility of mind]
[7:87]
- In sexual matters [show
Self-constraint and self-control] [4:25]
What are the Rewards for SABR?
- Glad tidings [2:155]
- Allah is with those who
are Sabireen [2:153, 2:249, 8:46, 8:66]
- Allah loves Sabireen
[3:146]
- Allah’s salawat
[blessings] and Rahmat [2:157]
- The help of Angels
[i.e. the Forces of nature], (as a result of SABR and
TAQWA [3:125]
- The reward in full,
without reckoning [39:10]
- Double reward (as a
result of SABR, repelling evil with good and spending
in the cause of Allah ) [28:54]
- The best reward
[11:115, 12:90, 16:96]
- Leadership (of nations)
[32:24]
- Goodly residence in
this world and much better reward in the hereafter
[16:41-42]
- The highest place and
paradise [13:23-24, 25:75, 29:58, 76:12]
- Success (in the both
worlds)[24:111]
- A good end
(result)[13:22]
- Victory over the
disbeliever enemy even if the enemy is double in number
[Twenty believers who are SABIROON [steadfast] can
defeat two hundred of those who are disbelievers. A hundred
believers who are SABIROON [steadfast] can defeat a
thousand of those who are disbelievers] [With limited means
and power a thousand steadfast believers can defeat two
thousand disbelievers and a hundred steadfast believers can
defeat two hundred disbelievers] [8:65-66]
- Inheritance on the
Earth [7:128, 7:137]
- No harm from the
disbeliever enemy (as a result of TAQWA and SABR)
[If SABR [steadfastness] is combined with TAQWA
[Careful observance of duties assigned by Allah and the
Commanders of the government established in the name of
Allah and a sound protection against the enemy], the enemy
cannot do any harm ] [3:120]
- Enemies may also become
close friends by SABR [41:34-35]
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