What is Faith?

Bear hardship with patience, and one’s sins will be forgiven in the next world Abu Bakr once recited this verse of the Qur’an before the Prophet: “He that does evil shall be requited with it. There shall be none to protect or help him.” (4:123) “How,” he asked, “can things now turn out well for us, since we shall have to pay for the evil that we do?” “May God forgive you, Abu Bakr,” the Prophet said, “don’t you ever become ill, or feel fatigue or distress? Aren’t you sometimes afflicted with hardship? Don’t you fall into error now and then?” Abu Bakr said that he did indeed. “This then is the requital of your sins in this world,” said the Prophet. (KANZ AL- UMMAL)