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SABR has been described in the Quran as one of the great virtues of the believers
What is SABR?
SABR has the following meanings:
Patience: the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience with calmness, self-control and without complaint
Forbearance: Tolerance and restraint in the face of provocation
Composure: A calm or tranquil state of mind
Equanimity: The quality of being calm and even-tempered
Steadfastness: Quality of being, firmly loyal, unswerving and unchanging
Firmness: determination and resolution
Perseverance: Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose
Endurance: The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress
Self-constraint & Self-control: fettering, shackling of various urges, violent emotions and bad desires
In the Quran, SABR has been used in all the above meanings at different places as well as in the following meanings:
- To maintain patience, composure, equanimity, self-control and endurance in the face of difficulties, hardships, stress or inconveniences that may come in living and doing things in the way Prescribed by Allah
- To maintain determination, resoluteness, steadfastness and perseverance in abiding by Allah’s commands
- To steadily adhere to the statutes of the Quran
- To maintain constancy with Allah
In 70:5, Allah commands:
Faisbir sabran jameelan
Which means:
- Persevere with the beautiful perseverance
- Be patient with a beautiful patience
- Be steadfast with the best steadfastness
Allah says in the Quran:
-O you who believe ! Be steadfast and be supreme in your perseverance [3:200]
-For your Lord’s [cause], be patient and steadfast [74:7]
-For every hardship, there is a relief or ease [94:5-6]
-Allah does not impose on any self any more burden that it can bear [2:286]
When to show SABR?
- In harm, injury, mischief, damage, poverty, bodily affliction, distress, lack of means of subsistence, misfortune, calamity, a state of pressing want [show patience, endurance, equanimity and adherence to the Laws of Allah] [2:177]
- In the state of war [show steadfastness] [2:250]
- In fear
- In hunger
- In case of loss of money
- In case of loss of lives
- In case of loss of fruits [of your toil] [show patience, endurance, equanimity and adherence to the Laws of Allah][2:155]
- On whatever may befall [of calamities] [show patience, endurance, equanimity and adherence to the Laws of Allah] [22:35]
- In the face of rejection [show patience and endurance][6:34]
- When people make you a laughing stock for your True convictions [show equanimity and composure] [23:110-111]
- In seeking your Lord’s Countenance [show steadfastness and perseverance][13:22]
- When wealth, fortune, plenty or ease comes after poverty, misfortune, scarcity, or hardship [show equanimity and adherence to Allah’s laws][11:9-10]
- While waiting for Allah’s judgment [and results of your actions] [show patience, calm and tranquility of mind] [7:87]
- In sexual matters [show Self-constraint and self-control] [4:25]
What are the Rewards for SABR?
- Glad tidings [2:155]
- Allah is with those who are Sabireen [2:153, 2:249, 8:46, 8:66]
- Allah loves Sabireen [3:146]
- Allah’s salawat [blessings] and Rahmat [2:157]
- The help of Angels [i.e. the Forces of nature], (as a result of SABR and TAQWA [3:125]
- The reward in full, without reckoning [39:10]
- Double reward (as a result of SABR, repelling evil with good and spending in the cause of Allah ) [28:54]
- The best reward [11:115, 12:90, 16:96]
- Leadership (of nations) [32:24]
- Goodly residence in this world and much better reward in the hereafter [16:41-42]
- The highest place and paradise [13:23-24, 25:75, 29:58, 76:12]
- Success (in the both worlds)[24:111]
- A good end (result)[13:22]
- Victory over the disbeliever enemy even if the enemy is double in number [Twenty believers who are SABIROON [steadfast] can defeat two hundred of those who are disbelievers. A hundred believers who are SABIROON [steadfast] can defeat a thousand of those who are disbelievers] [With limited means and power a thousand steadfast believers can defeat two thousand disbelievers and a hundred steadfast believers can defeat two hundred disbelievers] [8:65-66]
- Inheritance on the Earth [7:128, 7:137]
- No harm from the disbeliever enemy (as a result of TAQWA and SABR) [If SABR [steadfastness] is combined with TAQWA [Careful observance of duties assigned by Allah and the Commanders of the government established in the name of Allah and a sound protection against the enemy], the enemy cannot do any harm ] [3:120]
- Enemies may also become close friends by SABR [41:34-35]
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Jazak allah khair Mr_nice_guy for posting the view of Quran.
I didn't think people responding to this topic understood sabr in the comprehensive manner as Quran puts it -- Most people think of Sabr being the act of suffering when options run out. Fasting is sabr by choice of offering worship and voluntarily staying away from normal consumptions of edibles and mating with spouses.
Also, sabr is not for once or twice or for limited times. Not giving up and remaining consistent is sabr. Its the strength of believer that keeps him/her from falling out. Its the gaurd, when lowered, shaitan punches right in the nose.
Sabr is like Eman, can't be let go at any moment. It may weaken but shall never be lost. Its the treasure of a believer. Its the pass to the paradise.