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informed of this, his two cheeks turned red and then he said :
May God show mercy on my brother Moses. He suffered more than this and he took patience. God says : Leave the trouble inflicted by them and rely on God-33 : 48 . God says : Have patience at what they say and leave them a good leave-73 : 10.
God says : I know that your heart is saddended at what they say.
Do glorify your Lord-5 : 98. God says : You will certainly hear many words troubling you from the People of the Book and polytheists. If you can have patience at that and fear God, it will be an act of bravery-3 : 186. For this reason, God praised those who restrain themselves from taking revenge. God says : If you take revenge (for religion), inflict such trouble as has been inflicted on you, but if you take to patience, there are abundant good for the patient-16 : 126. The Prophet said : Join the tie with one who severs it from you. Give charity to one who deprives you. Forgive one who oppresses you. 1 saw in the Injil in which Jesus said : You have been said before : Take a tooth for a tooth and a nose for a nose, but I say to you : Don't do harm in lieu of harm but turn your left cheek to one who slaps your right cheek.
Give pour cloth to one who takes your shirt. Walk with one two miles with his load who takes you to one mile with his load."
These are instructions for patience at the injuries inflicted by others. So high merits are obtained through patience.

Third class of patience which is outside human control.
Examples of such patience are sudden mishaps, dangers, pangs of death, loss of health owing to illness, loss of eye sight. Hazrat Ibn Abbas said: There are news of three kinds of patience in the Holy Quran - (1) to have patience in doing compulsory things ordained by God, (2) to keep oneself away from the forbidden things of God, (3) and to have patience at sudder. dangers and difficulties. Good merits are obtained for such patience. Every believer can have patience at unlawful things but it is only the prophets who can have patience at the natural calamities. For this reason, the Prophet said: O God, I pray to you to grant me such firm faith as can make dangers and difficulties from Thee easy on me. It is understood from this that sure faith is linked with patience. (1) Abu Solaiman said: By God, we can't have patience at what we love. How can we then have patience at what we do not love? (2) The Holy Prophet said: God says: When I send on My servant any physical, economic or family trouble and if he forbears it, I will feel shame to set up for him balance and

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