Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: ((Those will be rewarded with the upper rooms for what they patiently endured)).
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The Shaykh :[Al-Furqan 25:74] [Al-Furqan 25:75] This is their reward. The upper rooms, which are: Paradise. It is called that because it is a room within a room, containing what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and what has not entered the heart of any human being. We ask Allah to make me and you among its inhabitants. [Al-Furqan 25:75] Meaning: because of their patience. The scholars said: "And patience is of three types: patience in obeying Allah, patience in refraining from disobeying Allah, and patience regarding the painful decrees of Allah". Let us give an example for each one:
Patience in obeying Allah: that a person resists his own self and compels it to perform obedience. If he gets up in the last part of the night in the days of winter, and finds the water cold, but it does not harm him. Does he need patience or not? He needs patience, so let him be patient, and if he is pained by the cold, then performing the ablution thoroughly despite the hardship is part of the garrison (rabat). This is patience in obeying Allah. Patience in refraining from disobeying Allah: that his self makes it easy for him to look at women, for example, and he tries to prevent himself. This is patience regarding the prohibitions of Allah.
Patience regarding the decrees of Allah: hardly is anyone spared from affliction, from illness, from poverty, from the loss of relatives, from the loss of friends. The important thing is that calamities are many. So let him be patient with these decrees and endure them. - May Allah have mercy on you - So let him be patient with these decrees and endure them. For Allah the Exalted is with the patient ones. The scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, said: "And the stations of people regarding the decrees of Allah are four stations: the first: despair (jaz'). The second: patience. The third: contentment (rida). The fourth: gratitude. Every person who is struck by a calamity must be in one of these states. Despair: that when he is struck by a calamity, he slaps his cheek, pulls out his hair, calls out woe and destruction, and tears his garment. He bears a sin for this. Or if a relative dies, he wails over him like a mourning dove and does not be patient. Wailing over the dead is among the major sins, to the extent that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the wailer and the listener. Meaning: the one who wails and the one who listens to her. And among people, and I seek refuge in Allah, are those who go beyond this and climb a mountain at the time of calamity and throw themselves down, thereby killing themselves, or they drink poison to kill themselves, or they kill themselves with a blade. They do not be patient. And does the one who does this escape from the calamity? Answer! No, by Allah. Rather, he only increases in regret, because if he dies and he is the one who killed himself, he will be punished in the Fire of Hell with what he used to kill himself. We ask Allah for safety! And what this person did is like one who seeks shelter from the scorching heat by jumping into the fire. The second state: patience: and that is that he swallows the bitterness of the calamity, he is mentally exhausted by the calamity. But he has protected his hearing, his sight, and his limbs. He endures, and if he goes beyond that to seeking reward, meaning: seeking the reward from Allah for patience, then this is light upon light.
The third: contentment. Contentment means: that when a person is struck by a calamity, he says: this is from Allah, and he is content with it and submits, and there is not in his heart that extreme sadness that might lead him to do something disliked. Rather, he says: I am a servant of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, He does with me what He wills. If He strikes me with hardship, I will be patient, and that will be better for me. If He strikes me with prosperity, I will be grateful, and that will be better for me.
The fourth: gratitude. But how does a person give thanks for a calamity? He gives thanks for the calamity from two aspects:
The first aspect: that when he compares it to something greater, he thanks Allah.
Second: that when he compares it in terms of its reward, he thanks Allah, because the reward is better than the calamity.[Az-Zumar 39:10].
and make us an example for the righteous."
وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَاماًThose will be awarded the Chamber for what they patiently endured
أُوْلَئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُواThose will be awarded the Chamber for what they patiently endured
أُوْلَئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُواPatience in obeying Allah: that a person resists his own self and compels it to perform obedience. If he gets up in the last part of the night in the days of winter, and finds the water cold, but it does not harm him. Does he need patience or not? He needs patience, so let him be patient, and if he is pained by the cold, then performing the ablution thoroughly despite the hardship is part of the garrison (rabat). This is patience in obeying Allah. Patience in refraining from disobeying Allah: that his self makes it easy for him to look at women, for example, and he tries to prevent himself. This is patience regarding the prohibitions of Allah.
Patience regarding the decrees of Allah: hardly is anyone spared from affliction, from illness, from poverty, from the loss of relatives, from the loss of friends. The important thing is that calamities are many. So let him be patient with these decrees and endure them. - May Allah have mercy on you - So let him be patient with these decrees and endure them. For Allah the Exalted is with the patient ones. The scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, said: "And the stations of people regarding the decrees of Allah are four stations: the first: despair (jaz'). The second: patience. The third: contentment (rida). The fourth: gratitude. Every person who is struck by a calamity must be in one of these states. Despair: that when he is struck by a calamity, he slaps his cheek, pulls out his hair, calls out woe and destruction, and tears his garment. He bears a sin for this. Or if a relative dies, he wails over him like a mourning dove and does not be patient. Wailing over the dead is among the major sins, to the extent that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the wailer and the listener. Meaning: the one who wails and the one who listens to her. And among people, and I seek refuge in Allah, are those who go beyond this and climb a mountain at the time of calamity and throw themselves down, thereby killing themselves, or they drink poison to kill themselves, or they kill themselves with a blade. They do not be patient. And does the one who does this escape from the calamity? Answer! No, by Allah. Rather, he only increases in regret, because if he dies and he is the one who killed himself, he will be punished in the Fire of Hell with what he used to kill himself. We ask Allah for safety! And what this person did is like one who seeks shelter from the scorching heat by jumping into the fire. The second state: patience: and that is that he swallows the bitterness of the calamity, he is mentally exhausted by the calamity. But he has protected his hearing, his sight, and his limbs. He endures, and if he goes beyond that to seeking reward, meaning: seeking the reward from Allah for patience, then this is light upon light.
The third: contentment. Contentment means: that when a person is struck by a calamity, he says: this is from Allah, and he is content with it and submits, and there is not in his heart that extreme sadness that might lead him to do something disliked. Rather, he says: I am a servant of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, He does with me what He wills. If He strikes me with hardship, I will be patient, and that will be better for me. If He strikes me with prosperity, I will be grateful, and that will be better for me.
The fourth: gratitude. But how does a person give thanks for a calamity? He gives thanks for the calamity from two aspects:
The first aspect: that when he compares it to something greater, he thanks Allah.
Second: that when he compares it in terms of its reward, he thanks Allah, because the reward is better than the calamity.