Patience and Resilience (Ṣabr)

Ṣabr is not passive endurance. It is an active holding. The Qurʾān teaches us to ask for it because it does not come naturally to the human being under pressure. It is a capacity that must be poured in from above.

Maryam · 19:4
My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled with grey, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy…

رَبِّ إِنِّي وَهَنَ الْعَظْمُ مِنِّي وَاشْتَعَلَ الرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا وَلَمْ أَكُن بِدُعَائِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيًّا
وَإِنِّي خِفْتُ الْمَوَالِيَ مِن وَرَائِي وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَتِي عَاقِرًا فَهَبْ لِي مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا
يَرِثُنِي وَيَرِثُ مِنْ آلِ يَعْقُوبَ وَاجْعَلْهُ رَبِّ رَضِيًّا

al-Anbiyāʾ · 21:83
Indeed, Harm Has Touched Me, and You Are the Most Merciful of the Merciful

أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ

al-Muʾminūn · 23:26
My Lord, support me because they deny me

رَبِّ انصُرْنِي بِمَا كَذَّبُونِ

al-Qaṣaṣ · 28:24
My Lord, indeed I am, for whatever good You would send down to me, in need

رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ

al-Baqarah · 2:250
Our Lord, Pour upon us Patience and Plant Firmly our Feet and give us Victory over the disbelieving People.

رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًا وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَنَا وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ

Āl ʿImrān · 3:147
Our Lord, Forgive us our Sins and the Excess Committed in our Affairs and Plant Firmly our Feet and Give us Victory over the Disbelieving People.

رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَإِسْرَافَنَا فِي أَمْرِنَا وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَنَا وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ

al-Aʿrāf · 7:126
Our Lord, Pour Upon Us Patience and Let Us Die as Muslims

رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًا وَتَوَفَّنَا مُسْلِمِينَ

Yūsuf · 12:101
O My Lord, You Have Given Me of the Kingdom and Taught me the Interpretation of Dreams…

رَبِّ قَدْ آتَيْتَنِي مِنَ الْمُلْكِ وَعَلَّمْتَنِي مِن تَأْوِيلِ الْأَحَادِيثِ ۚ فَاطِرَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَنتَ وَلِيِّي فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ ۖ تَوَفَّنِي مُسْلِمًا وَأَلْحِقْنِي بِالصَّالِحِينَ

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