Learning Plan · 5 lessons · Coming soon
Patience (Ṣabr) in Five Days
Three kinds of ṣabr, the duʿā that holds them, and the reward without measure.
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This plan's lessons are being sourced and reviewed. Every entry will carry primary references (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwud, Tirmidhī, Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad) and graded against the rulings of al-Albānī and Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ where scholars differ. We publish a plan once that work is done — not before.
Duration
Each lesson takes around 5 minutes. 5 lessons total — designed to be read one a day.
Description
The classical scholars say there are three kinds of patience: patience in obeying Allah, patience in avoiding what He has forbidden, and patience under the trials He decrees. Most Muslims think of ṣabr only as the third kind — the patience under loss. The first two are the muscle that makes the third possible.
This plan walks through all three over five days, ends with the duʿā the Qurʾān gives the people of Badr, and the verse the angels recite over the patient: 'Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without measure.' (39:10).
Topics covered
- The three classical categories of ṣabr
- Ṣabr in obedience — keeping the prayer when it's heavy
- Ṣabr against desire — the harder battle
- Ṣabr under trial — the verse of istirjāʿ and what it does
- The reward bi-ghayri ḥisāb — without measure
Outline
- What Ṣabr Is — Three KindsDay 1 · 5 min
- Ṣabr in ObedienceDay 2 · 5 min
- Ṣabr Against DesireDay 3 · 5 min
- Ṣabr Under TrialDay 4 · 5 min
- The Reward Without MeasureDay 5 · 5 min