14. ENDURE CALAMITIES WHILE SUPPLICATING
Allah, Most High, determines when calamities will end; therefore an inflicted person must bear patiently until a calamity is over! If a person becomes anxious before the time of calamity ends, his anxiety will not help him just like how an object rolls downward, it does not go upward. Thus patience (sabr) is obligated (wajib) until the difficulty’ disappears.
Hoping for the calamity to end soon while knowing that it has a set time does not work. Patience {sabr) is a must, yet without accompanying it with supplication (idu’a), it will not have the desired effect. He who supplicates should not hasten but rather continue to worship with patience {sabr), invocation {du’a) and wholly surrender {taslim) to the Wise One (al-Hakim).
Moreover, one should abandon the causes {sabab) of the calamity {bald), which is usually a form of punishment (for one’s sins).
As for whoever hastens and becomes impatient {muta’jil), is in fact transgressing against the One Who arranges the affairs (mudbir) of this world and this is deviation from the state of his servitude (‘ubudijya) to his Lord. The supreme state (maqam al-‘ala) is when he is pleased {rida) with what He predestined and decreed for him.
Patience is necessary and avoiding the harm with excessive supplication is best of resorts; objection is sinful and being hasty {ista’jal) is a form of transgression against the arrangement of the Wise.
Understand these points for they will mitigate the calamity.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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