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Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: "Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while Allah has not yet made evident those of you who strive and made evident the patient?"
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He said: So he entered upon him and said, "I have come to you as a visitor, a comforter in illness, and a bearer of glad tidings."
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He said, "I set out intending to visit you, and when news of your illness reached me, it became a visit to the sick,
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and I bring you glad tidings of something I heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him."
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He said: "If a status is preordained for a servant from Allah that he cannot attain by his own deeds,
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Allah afflicts him in his body, in his wealth, or in his children,
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then grants him patience until He brings him to the status that was preordained for him from Him."
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Narrated by Ahmad.
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A point of benefit:
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Zuhayr ibn Nu'aym, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
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"Indeed, this matter cannot be accomplished except through two things:
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patience and certainty.
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For if there is certainty without patience,
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it will not be accomplished;
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and if there is patience without certainty,
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it will not be accomplished."
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Abu al-Darda' struck a parable for them, saying:
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"The parable of certainty and patience
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is like two oxen plowing the earth:
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if one sits down, the other sits down as well."