Excellence of Patience & Gratefulness

✍ Scribed by Ibn al-Qayyim

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 474
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Chapter One: The dictionary meaning of the word Sabr and its derivation and conjugation
Chapter Two: The real essence of Sabr and the scholars’ views concerning it
Chapter Three: Names of Sabr, in relation to its object
Chapter Four: Difference between Sabr, Tasabbur, Istibar, and Musabarah
Chapter Five: The categories of patience according to its conditions
Chapter Six: The categories of patience according to a person’s strength, weakness, ability or inability to combat the forces of desire
Chapter Seven: The categories of patience with regard to its object
Chapter Eight: Patience can be divided into five categories: Obligatory, Desirable, Forbidden, Reprehensible and Permissible.
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Chapter Nine: Different levels of patience
Chapter Ten: Division of patience into praiseworthy and blameworthy
Chapter Eleven: Differences in the patience of the honorable and dishonorable people
Chapter Twelve: Techniques that help in exercising patience
Chapter Thirteen: Explanation of the fact that human beings can under no circumstance dispense with patience
Chapter Fourteen: The most difficult type of patience that people can bear
Chapter Fifteen: Patience (Sabr) in the verses of the Holy Qur’an
Chapter Sixteen: Patience in the narrations of the Sunnah
Chapter Seventeen: The sayings of the Companions and their followers about patience
Chapter Eighteen: Actions connected with affliction like crying, wailing, tearing the clothes, actions of pre-Islamic period and the like.
Chapter Nineteen: Patience is half of faith
Chapter Twenty: Exposition of the controversy regarding which one is better: patience or thankfulness
Chapter Twenty-One: Judgment between the two groups and the determination of each case
Chapter Twenty-Two: The argument between scholars as to who is better: the grateful rich or the patient poor and the exposition of the correct view in this respect
Chapter Twenty-Three: The case for the poor as explained in the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the sayings of the early scholars and by analogical deduction
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Chapter Twenty-Four: The argument for the rich in their favor from the Qur’an, Sunnah, the reports of the early scholars and analogy
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Chapter Twenty-Five: Matters which are contradictory to patience and which cause harm and damage it
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Sabr as one of the attributes of the Lord, as He is called al-Sabur and al-Shakur
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CONCLUSION

✦ Subjects

Islamic