The hardship in performing acts of worship and its indication of a deficiency in faith
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If a Muslim finds hardship in himself in fulfilling the commands of Allah, is this considered evidence of a deficiency in his faith? And is the most complete state the absence of this hardship?
Answer:
No, a person finds this hardship, but the one who is praised is the one who is patient with it. As for the one who does not have patience, seeks comfort, and abandons the worship, he is the one who is blamed. There is no one who stands in night prayer without needing patience; fasting requires patience; jihad in the path of Allah requires patience. But when a person is patient, these things turn into pleasures for him, and he takes delight in them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If a Muslim finds hardship in himself in fulfilling the commands of Allah, is this considered evidence of a deficiency in his faith? And is the most complete state the absence of this hardship?
Answer:
No, a person finds this hardship, but the one who is praised is the one who is patient with it. As for the one who does not have patience, seeks comfort, and abandons the worship, he is the one who is blamed. There is no one who stands in night prayer without needing patience; fasting requires patience; jihad in the path of Allah requires patience. But when a person is patient, these things turn into pleasures for him, and he takes delight in them. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب العاشر في علامات مرض القلب وصحته — islamhouse.com (50:25)
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