UAE Friday sermon: Patience one of life’s greatest blessings

Patience may be the greatest blessing one could have, and it requires training and practice for one to sustain it through the difficulties of life, worshippers will hear on Friday.

The sermon this week offers advice on how and when to be patient in everyday life.

“This is because dealing with others requires one to be kind, calm and know how to control his reactions,” the sermon says. “Likewise, one needs to exercise tolerance when implementing the law, adhering to the rules, while waiting in a queue or showing respect for others’ rights.”

The biggest challenge is to remain patient during crises – when one’s faith and tolerance are under trial by Allah.

“Those who endure patiently will, by Allah’s favour, be rewarded in abundance,” the faithful will hear.

In fact, patience during crises is a win-win situation for true believers. As Prophet Mohammed once said: “And know that in the patience on what you hate, there is a lot of good”.

“The true patient [person] is he who is content with what Allah has decreed, never objects to it and only seeks help from Him,” continues the sermon.

Patience also offers comfort for a person in distress.

“Through patience and tolerance and by not being in haste one can overcome such difficulties,” the sermon says.

“Those who tend to lose their patience will, in turn, lose that which is good for them and fall in troubles that might bring them undesirable consequences.”

The sermon cites a poem that says: “Through patience, one will achieve at least one goal, yet by being impatient in sins one might fall.”

And a verse in the Quran quotes the prophet Jacob after he lost two of his sons, saying: “So patience is most fitting. Perhaps Allah will bring them to me all together.”