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measure on the Resurrection Day. (3) The Prophet said: To await with patience for release from a danger is included within divine service. He also said: If a servant prays with the following according to the order of God after falling in a danger, his prayer is accepted: We are surely for God and to Him we shall return. O God, give me blessing in my danger and leave good behind it. (4)
Hazrat Anas said: That Prophet said that God said: O Gabriel, do you know what reward I give to one whose eyes I have robbed?
He says: O God, we don't know anything except what You have taught us. God said: Its reward is his constant living in My abode and his look towards My face. (5) The Prophet said: God says:
When I examine a servant with a trial and he keeps patience at that and does not complain of Me to his visitors, I give him better flesh in lieu of his former flesh and better blood in lieu of his former blood . When I cure him, I cure him after forgiving his sins.
(6) Hazrat Daud prayed once: O Lord, what is the reward of a* person who keeps patience at his dangers by seeking' your pleasure? God said: His reward is this that I will dress him with the dress of faith and will never take it from him. (7) The Caliph Omar bin Abdul "Aziz once addressed the people thus: If God takes away a gift which He gave to a person, He gives him a gift better than his previous gift provided he keeps patience. Then he read this verse: The patient will be given full reward without account. (8) When the saint Fazil was asked about patience, he said: To keep satisfied with the decree of God is patience. He was asked: How is that? He replied: The satisfied man does not expect rank more than his rank. (9) It is narrated that when Shibli was imprisoned at Maristan, some people met him. He asked them:
Who are you? They said: Your friends. We have come to meet you. He then stoned at them. When they were about to flee away, he said to them: If you are my real friends, you would have kept patience at my difficulty. (10) A certain sage used to take out a writing from his pocket every -hour and read it. Therein it was written: Be patient at the decree of your Lord as you are in My careful sight - 52 : 48. (11) It is narrated that the wife of the saint Fateh Mussalli once slipped down and her joint was broken: She ' then gave thanks to God after rising up. She was asked: Have you got no pain? She said: The joy of the reward of pain removed from my heart the pangs of pain. (12) Hazrat Daud said to his son Solaiman: Fear of God in a believer is proved by three things. (1)
He relies on God for what he cannot earn. (2) he remains satisfied with God for what he earns and (3)°he keeps patience for what

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