Remaining patient in the face of difficulties

"Therefore be patient with a patience which is beautiful.." (Surat
al-Ma'arij, 5)
Patience is one of the most important attributes of a believer. What
renders patience so valuable is "to be patient with a patience which
is beautiful". All Mighty Allah creates many incidents for a Muslim
for which he should display patience.
Weaknesses and diseases peculiar to this world, unbelievers'
oppression and insults, people that Allah makes us encounter to test
our lower selves are some of these.
It is a great blessing to live in the hope of and willingness to
attain Paradise, which is a manifestation of infinite beauties Allah
relates us in the Qur'an and the hadith. While hoping to attain
Paradise, a believer has to show a beautiful patience towards the
weaknesses of the life of this world.
One of the most important attributes of abeautiful patience is
remaining patient with a serene heart. It is being assured that all
incidents Allah shows us are created in the best way, in the most wise
form. A convinced heart reveals itself from the expression of one's
face, the serenity in his soul and speech. In his face there appears
peace in his face that patience gives. His statements reveal maturity
and trustin Allah.
A person who shows patience with a beautiful patience does this with
the consciousness of the worship he performs and awareness that he
ispatient for Allah. Therefore he takes pleasure from showing this
patience. Just as how a person gives thanks to Allah with his words
and deeds when he receives a lot of blessings, and uses thoseblessings
in the best form, he should likewise meet those situations towards
which he should be patient and act in the consciousness that they are
also blessings from Allah. He must act with the awareness that those
incidents are created with many wisdom so as to lay the basis for
beauties and experienceits beauty while displaying patience.
Another purpose of showing patience is this morality's rendering
onedraw closer to Allah and increase a sincere Muslim's love of Allah.
A person who shows patience towards hardship, trouble or a sickness
for Allah's good pleasure knows that every moment, every second of
this patience is very precious in Allah'sSight. In the Hereafter, the
rewards of a deed done by showing a beautiful patience and the one
done under verycomfortable conditions or with no effort at all may not
be the same. If aperson engages in a deed while at the same time
showing patience, his morality may render his deed more worthy. For
instance showing self-sacrifice while one issick and while he is
perfectly healthy may not be the same. If a person makes sacrifice for
Allah's good pleasurewhile he is sick, he, by Allah's leave,
experiences the profound and candid beauty of showing patience. For
this reason,until death comes upon them, Muslims always show the kind
of beautiful patience Allah describes in the Qur'an when they
encounter anincident, whether big or small. In return for their moral
perfection and beautiful patience he shows, he lives in the hope of
earning Allah's good pleasure.