Explaining the virtue of patience and mentioning its types.

And among the benefits of this noble verse is the virtue of patience, and that through it comes assistance in enduring matters. This is an observed reality that does not require establishing evidence for it, because it is clear. Everyone knows that, even Taha knows this, does he not? Yes.
The scholars said: Patience is of three types, and they derived this classification from induction. The first is patience in obeying Allah, the second is patience in refraining from disobeying Allah, and the third is patience with the decrees of Allah. Patience in obedience is the most difficult of them and the most excellent, because patience in obedience involves both action and restraint; it involves action and voluntary restraint. Action, what is it, O servant of Allah? It is the act of obedience. Restraint is restraining the self from being negligent with it and not establishing it properly. Is that clear? So it is creative and positive. Patience in refraining from disobedience contains only restraint, but it is sometimes severe; it can be severe on the self. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) placed the young man to whom a woman of high status and beauty called out, and who said, "I fear Allah," in the rank of the just imam in the sense that Allah will shade him in His shade on the Day when there is no shade except His. Even though the just imam is better, in this regard they are equal, because the strength of the urge in youth and the benefit of the restraint when one is alone with her necessitates what? Falling into the forbidden. But he said, "I fear Allah." This patience may be more difficult than a person praying twenty prayers. Patience in this may be more difficult for a person than twenty prayers. But we are not speaking of the circumstances that befall some people; we are speaking of the thing in itself. So which is better? Patience in obedience, O Khalid ibn Hamid, or patience in refraining from disobedience? Patience in obedience. Patience in obedience. And pay attention, why do I single out some people in the question? Is that clear? What is it? Yes, it is because he is distracted in heart or body. Now, patience with the decrees of Allah is the lowest of them, but even so, a person may find great hardship in it. However, we are not speaking of a specific patience in a specific person; some people may lose their beloved, or their son, or their wife, or something similar, and this may be more difficult for them than a thousand prayers in terms of emotional reaction, or not? But we are not speaking of that. Patience with the decrees of Allah is not actually an action on your part, because what has happened must happen, whether you are patient or not. If you become despondent, regret it, your grief intensifies, and you break out in crying, will the decreed be lifted? No. As some of the Salaf said, Which of us has not been struck by a calamity ten years ago, for example, or less or more? And have we forgotten it now? We have forgotten it; it is as if it never came. Because, as al-Sulami (may Allah have mercy on him) said: . Yes. So how many types of patience are there? Three: First, in obeying Allah; second, in refraining from disobeying Allah; third, with the decrees of Allah. Now, take patience as your methodology and path. Be patient with matters and endure them, and do not despair, for if despair takes hold of a person, much good is lost to him.