The reward for Patience

THE REWARD FOR PATIENCE When faced with challenges, if one leaves the matter to God and bears it patiently for God’s sake, his action will never be wasted. Instead, he will receive from God what he could not obtain from fellow human beings. The Quran attaches utmost importance to patience. The Quran tells us that if someone commits excesses against you and you cannot exercise patience, you can similarly respond to him. however, this is only by way of a concession. otherwise, the higher response is to forgive him and adopt the reform approach instead of exacting revenge. if you respond this way, you will get your reward from God, and no harm will befall you. Thus, the Quran says: “let harm be requited by an equal harm. But whoever pardons and amends will find his reward with God. he does not love the wrongdoers.” (42:40) in life, one is repeatedly faced with difficulties at the hands of others. someone promises you something but does not live up to it. someone misuses his position of authority to torment you. you hear a complaint about someone, and then you try to do everything to ruin him. you take advantage of a situation to rob someone of his rights. someone’s jealousy of seeing your progress is so intense that he wants nothing but your destruction. and so on. in most cases, someone who has been oppressed by someone else burns with the desire to take revenge. Therefore, he refuses to agree to forget and forgive the wrong done to