Don’t just be patient, be patient and along with that hope for a reward from Allaah for your patience during your calamity

Don’t just be patient, be patient and along
with that hope for a reward from Allaah for
your patience during your calamity

Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him, said,
“Indeed when a person faces calamities with patience [but]
without hoping for a reward from Allaah, the calamity will
become an expiation for his sins. And if he shows patience
along with hoping for a reward [from Allaah], then along with
being an expiation for his sins it becomes a good recompense
and reward. And the meaning of hoping for Allaah’s reward
[al-Ihtisaab] is that a person believes that he will soon be rewarded
for the patience [he is showing], so he makes good his
thoughts about Allaah and thus Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic,
will give him [a reward] according to what he thought of
Him.”
At-Ta’leeq alaa Saheeh Muslim, p. 342.

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