The Spiritual Benefits of Sabr

The highest consolation which the rightous can receive is the assurance that Allah is with them. A double qualification is indicated or so high an honour.

1. that they should not yield to human passion or anger or impatience
2. that they should go on with constancy doing all good around them to attain the presence of Allah in the sense "I am with you" is the culmination of the rightoue person's aspiraition. (Abdullah Yusuf Ali Quran Tafsir, n. 2164). 

Allah (swt) states in the Qur'an.

"Enjoin prayer on thy people and be constant therein. We ask thee not to provide sustenance: We provide it for thee but the fruit of the hereafter is for the rightous." (Qur'an 20; 132)

Sustenance in the sense of ordinary needs of lief. The man of Allah does not worry about. That is provided by Allah for all the just and the unjust. But the special provision, the real sustenance, the spiritual fruit is for a rightous life in the service of Allah. 

From personal experience, I can say, that spiritual joy cannot equal the joy of any luxury, anything in this whole wide world. When you do something sincerely for Allah you obtain a coolness of the heart. Than it spreads to your body and you become lifted from anything and any negativity of the entire world. When we sacrifice for Allah our soul is truly nourished by Allah in this world. It is a priceless moment. A truly priceless moment.

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