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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Mentioning the hadith (No one is more patient with the harm he hears than Allah) and the Shaykh’s use of it as evidence for patience with the harm of people.

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The Shaykh : ... and he cited beneath it a hadith with a sound chain from Abu Musa from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said:
No one - nothing - is more patient in enduring an injury which he hears than Allah Almighty ليس أحد -أو- ليس شيء أصبر على أذى يسمعه من الله عز وجل
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 389
So Allah, who created people, hears the harm from them, and they are His servants, created for Him, and despite that, He is patient with them. So for this... the Muslim: if your Lord, who created people, is harmed by them, and He is patient with their harm, as the hadith will explain, then you, O Muslim, are more deserving of patience when harm befalls you. What is this harm that our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) hears, and then He is patient with it, a patience that no one in the worlds is patient with? He said, completing the hadith:
They indeed call for Him a son—or they claim for Him a son—and He indeed heals them and provides for them. إنهم ليدعون له ولدا -أو- يدّعون له ولدا وإنه ليعافيهم ويرزقهم

They indeed accuse Allah (Mighty and Majestic) of the greatest accusation, that He has a partner, that He has a son, and despite that, He provides them with the good things of this world, and when they fall ill, He heals them. How is this, when they insult Him and ascribe to Him a son and a partner? That is from the patience of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) with His servants. Therefore, he (peace be upon him) said:
No thing and no one is more patient with the harm than Allah (Mighty and Majestic) hears from anyone, because they call for Him a son, and He indeed heals them and provides for them. ليس شيء وليس أحد أصبر على أذى من الله عز وجل يسمعه من أحد، ذلك لأنهم يدعون له ولدا وإنه ليعافيهم ويرزقهم
One might say, this is Allah; Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has all the attributes of perfection, so He is able to be patient with this patience, which has no like in this world. How can we be able to imitate Him?
We say that it is not possible for a human, no matter how high he rises, for his attribute to become similar to any of the attributes of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). But this is in the context of approximation, because Allah says:
There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing. ليس كمثله شيء وهو السميع البصير
[Ash-Shuraa 42:11]
And although He said regarding Himself, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, when He mentioned Adam (peace be upon him), He said:
and We made him hearing and seeing. فجعلناه سميعا بصيرا
[Al-Insan 76:2]
But the hearing of Adam and his descendants is not like the hearing of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and their sight is not like His sight, naturally. But there is a type of participation in the wording. So if a person cannot follow Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in the completeness of the attribute, then he should approximate the attribution of something of the attribute of patience with which Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) is described. Among His attributes is that He is the Patient, the Appreciative.
Source alathar.net

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