 تشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دادا دالا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحادي عشر نمب 11 أن يشهد أن الصبر نسف الإيمان that the person he testifies and he bears witness that patience is half of the iman فلا يبدل من إيمانه جزءا في نصرة نفسه then the person should not put effort in يبدل من إيمانه جزءا في نصرة نفسه he should not put effort in the cost of half of his iman in trying to retaliate and bring victory to his own self this is very powerful we said that patience is half of your iman do not spend your time and your efforts in trying to take revenge in the cost of the half of your iman الله أكبر فإذا صبره because if the person is patient فقد أحرز إيمانه he has protected and safeguarded his iman وصاله من النقص and he has protected it from deficiency والله يدفع عن اللذين آمنه والله يدفع عن اللذين آمنه الله is the one who defends and deflects harm from the believers this statement of the sheikh which is النصرة نصف الإيمان that patience is half of the iman is a statement that ابن القييم took on in authoring a book regarding this because half of it is patients and the other half is gratitude and this was taken from the prophet that the iman is these two halves and is taken from the hadith narrated from مسلم من حديث صحيب الرومي رضي الله تعالى عنه that the prophet عجبا لأمر المؤمن إن أمره كله خير وليس ذلك لأحد إلا للمؤمن إن أصابته السراء شكرا فكان خير الله وإن أصابته الضراء صبر فكان خير الله the messenger says fascination and amazement is in the affairs of the believer all of these affairs are good and this is not for anybody other than the believer if he is afflicted or if he goes through a good situation he shows gratitude and that is good for him and if he goes through a situation of hardship and pain and agony صبره he shows patience فكان خير الله and then is good for him so the believers affairs are either one of two times of good and times of hardship and times of good he comes with gratitude and the times of hardship he comes with patience and every time his situation is good that's why he is always in a situation of good so these two tasks what that half of your life is good and times of your life and half of your other time of your life is hardship you come with the required characteristics which is gratitude and the times of good and patience and the times of hardship فالإيمان ونصفن that's where the scholars bring it from them that the iman is half نصفان نصف صبرن ونصف شكرن half his patience and half his gratitude and Allah did the same as well he brought the two together in one verse he says إن في ذلك لآياتي لكل صبار شقول this is signs for every person who is patient and has gratitude and this has come in four places in the Qur'an four places in the Qur'an where Allah unites and brings together صبر and شكر so that's where the scholars brought it from from the Qur'an and the Sunnah and from the أقوال of the Salaf and the Ummah so sheikhul islam ibn Taymiyah he is pointing on that point which is that the half of your iman which is patience why do you want to dismiss it just so you can gain revenge why would you lose your half of your iman in the cost of just revenge so the believer is wise and he doesn't allow that to take place the sheikh says in number 12 that the person he bears witness that the patience that you come with is power and strength over your soul the word حكم منه the حكمة in the Arabic language is what's used for the riding beast is what you put in his mouth in others you've got control over it وقهر means قهر means you have power over something وغالب تلها again غالب ميزوة you overpower so whenever you have control over your nafs so whenever you have patience is that you have control over your nafs pay attention so what's beneficial if I have control over my nafs what do I gain فمتا كانت نفس مقورة whenever the nafs is overpowered and it's under your control your nafs does never your nafs does not want to and it doesn't have the intent and the desire to take you as a captive and throw you in destruction it can't do that it won't desire that anymore because you've got control over it ومتا كان مطي علىها but whenever you are obedient to your nafs in other words it has control over you and you listen to it and you're submissive to it and you're under its control لم تزل it will not remain except حتى تهليكه until it destroys you أو تتدارك رحمة من ربي unless Allah's mercy catches you and then stops you from destroying you فلو لم يكن في صبر إلا قهر لنفسه ولي الشيطانه and the sheikh says if patience had no other virtue except that you are going to have control over your nafs أن يو الشيطان فحين إذا يظهروا السلطان القلبي وتثبت جلوده ويفرحوا ويقوا ويطلود العدو عنه then it will be enough and then what becomes apparent is the strength of the heart and the firmness and the power of the armies ويفرحوا ويقوا ويطلود العدو عنه and it becomes happy and it becomes strong and it eradicate and gets rid of this enemy your nafs gets happy it gets strong it grows until it can get rid of its enemy No.13 ويعلم that you know if you show patience if you show patience Allah is the one who is going to give you victory and that is necessary it is bound to happen Allah is in the aid and the support of the one who is patient وأحال ظالمه على الله and the one who who surrenders the affairs of his oppressor to Allah says Allah you deal with it Allah is the one who is going to help you and aid you ومن تصر لنفسه وكله الله and anyone who brings victory for himself and revenge for himself takes revenge for himself Allah then He leaves you with yourself فكانه ناصر لله and the other one who is going to give victory for yourself فأين where is من ناصره الله where is the one who Allah is giving victory for him إلى من ناصره نفسه in comparison to the one who is giving victory to himself أعجز الناصرين وأضعفه He is the weakest of the two in giving victory is the one who gives victory for himself Where did he get this understanding from victory is connected to patience He got this from the حديث المحمد narrated in his Muslim on the authority of Imam Abbas an Albanian authenticated in his سلسلة حديث الصحيحة that the messenger said وأن النصر مع الصبلي that victory is with patience that victory is with patience and also the fact that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم when he went by when he came by صلى الله عليه وسلم some of the Sahaba has been tortured and then he told them where Islam is going to reach and the strength and the power that Islam is going to have What did the messenger say to him or what did the prophet say to them He said و لكنكم تستعجلون You are being hasty This is going to happen for you حتى يسير الراكب من صنعاء إلى حضر موت لا يخافوا And the person doesn't fear إلا ذيب من غلمه He only fears a wolf to eat his herd of sheep or goats و لكنكم تستعجلون about you are being hasty This is going to happen but stop being hasty Be patient So the victory will come Don't be hasty And that's why you find المسلمين today they want every single thing to happen overnight And the sheikh is going to bring that point إن شاء الله و تعالى سنه Number 14 أنّ صبره that you also bear witness that your patience على من أذاه your patience on the one that's harming you and your endurance and your endurance brings this oppressor from his oppression and makes him regret what he was doing So when you show patience and you show endurance it makes your opponent or it makes the person who is harming you the oppressor to come back from his oppression and it makes him regret what he was doing and it also makes him seek forgiveness And he becomes فيعود بعد إذاء after the hardship that he's put you through or he's put through others What does it do? It brings him back to as a مستحيين a shy person Naadiman regretful على ما فعله in that which he has done بل يسير موالي الله And rather he may even be a willier an ally of yours who helps you who supports you And that's what Allah has said in the ayah In Surat Al-Fussilat ayah 24 to ayah sorry ayah 34 to ayah 35 إدفع بلته أحسن فإذا الذي بينك وبينه عداوة كأنه ولي حميم وما يلقاها إلا الذين صبروا وما يلقاها إلا دوحظ عظيم And till he becomes a wali حميم A brother beloved to you So this is a powerful A powerful trait Number 15 Number 15 ربما it is possible كان انتقامه ومقابلة وسببا لزيادة شرخ اسمه وقوة نفسه It may be possible That Your revenge And your retaliation It could be a reason for him to increase in evil For him to increase in strength and power And hardheadedness Stubbornness And also for him to plan and plot Different types of ways To harm the creation كما هو المشاهد As it's seen today As it's known And we all know And we all see the shx But if the person فإذا صبرا وعفا أمين من هذا ضرر But if you forgive and you forget Then you are safe from him having to put you through another harm والعاقل The smart one لا يختار أعظم البراريني بدفع أدنهما The smart person Does not choose the greater Of the two harms While trying to deflect The lesser of the two What does he mean by it? It means that you're defending yourself Which is the lesser of the two You're defending of yourself The harm that he's put you through Is the lesser of the greater harm That's going to come So you go in to him And take your rights back Is a harm And it's a lesser And then you choose him over The greater harm of him Having to come back With a greater وَكَمْ قَدْ جَالَبَ الْإِنْتِقَامُ وَالْمُقَابَلَةُ مِشَرِّئِ How many times Has revenge and retaliation Bought a greater evil عجز الصحيب وعندفعه Then it became harder for you To then repel it وَكَمْ قَدْ جَابَتْ نُفُوسِ And how many lies Have been lost ورئاسات And leadership and positions Leaders were lost وأموال and wealth لو عفل المظلوم لبقية عليه If the oppressed one was to forgive All of that would have remained And none of that would have gone Isn't that something that's مشاهد It's something we all see Something we all see Number 16 Number 16 أن من اعتاد الانتقام ولم يصبر لا بد أن يقع في الظلم The person Who may see His norms To take revenge And does not show Patience and doesn't come with it There's no doubt That he's going to have to fall Into oppression himself He's going to take more than his right لا بد أن يقع في الظلم It is necessary that he's going to There's no doubt he's going to fall Into oppression Why? فإن النفس لا تقتصر على قدر عدل الواجب لها لا علم ولا إرادة لأن النفس The way it's made It does not shorten itself It doesn't stick to To the justice that was restricted Or the rights that it had It doesn't restrict itself to it It doesn't stick to the عدل الواجب The justice and the rights That you had You won't stay within that boundary لا علم ولا إرادة Not in terms of knowledge And of course not in terms of will وربما عجزت عن الاختصار على قدر الحق رادة You may even become weak To shorten yourself Or to restrict yourself To that which is Your rights You become unable to You can't Because a person has put you in a predicament Where you now have to become even harder You're unable to فإن الغضب يخروج بصاحبي إلى حد إلى حد لا يعقل ما يقول ويفعل Because the anger that comes from you It will push you to a limit Where you lose your Intellect And you forget what you're saying And that what you're doing فبينما هو مظلوم When you were just the one Who was oppressed right now ينتظر النصر And you were only waiting to get victory And honor from this إذا قال بالظالم The tables got turned You now became the oppressive oppressor You became the oppressor ينتظر المقتى والعقوبة Who is now awaiting the destruction And the wrath of Allah And this amount that the person may increase in on It can even be very little It doesn't matter But the reality is This is the reality of our نفس and the way it is And you know the Hadith of the Prophet Which is what The Halal is clear And the Haram is clear و بينهما أمور مشتبهات لا يعلمهن كثير من الناس فمن اتقى الشبوهات فقد استبرى علي دين وعرضه وما وقع في الشبوهات وقع في الحرام يحكى الراع يرعى حول الحما يشكو ايرتعفي If the person keeps dwelling And going over one point All the time And trying to get his rights And trying to get what was his As you are going around Finally you fall into it Which is to become the oppressor And the tables turn From being the oppressed You turn to becoming the oppressor From being one who is trying to bring your نفس Victory You've become a person who brought his نفس Destruction And wrath of Allah Number 17 Number 17 The sheikh says أن هذه المظلمة التي ظلمها هي سبب هي سبب إما لتقفير سيئته أو رفع درجته This oppression You should also bear witness That this oppression That you have been put through The reason why Allah تبارك وتعالى Once this to take place for you It is big either can be To expiate Your sins for you And to make you without sins Or even lessen your sins Or رفع درجته Allah wants to lift you up Stations and ranks فإن انتقم But if you then take matters Into your own hand And you take revenge ولم يصبر And you don't show patience لم تكن مكفرة Then you're not going to get Expiation for your sins لسيئته ولا رافعة لدرجته And you're not also Going to receive Stations being raised up for you You're going to lose that Because you took matters Into what? You took matters Into your own hand Number 18 The sheikh says أن عفوه وصبره من أكبر الجندي له على خسمه Number 18 That you also need To testify and bear witness That your forgiveness And you turning a Blind eye And being patient Is from the greatest Strength and the greatest Army that you've actually Used against your opponent فإن من صبر وعفا For verily the one who is patient And the one who forgives كان صبره وعفوه Your patience And your forgiveness Is what? موجبا لذل عدوه وخوفه وخشيتي من هو من الناس The person who comes With patience And forgives And forgets Your patience And your forgiveness Necessitates And brings Familiation to your enemy And fear you place in him And also the rest of the people Because the sheikh said something فإن الناس For verily the people لا يسكتون عن خسمه The people Will not be quiet Will not be quiet In speaking against Your opponent They're going to blame him Are you the person who did this to him And you still feel good Walking around Know you've done this to فلان وعلان So he will live a very tight life فإن تقامة But when you take matters Into your own hand And you take revenge The people won't say that to you You got your rights back And the sheikh says And you do Because of that You find a lot of people إذا شتم غيره If somebody else insults them Or somebody else harms them You love to To get away from him He likes to take his rights back from him فإذا قابله استراحة والقعن وثقلن كان يجد And if he retakes If he takes He finds joy And a very heavy load is taken from him You find a lot of people like that But the reality is The people are the ones Who are going to do that for you Number 19 The sheikh says And now إذا عفا عن خصمه استشعرت نفسه خصمه And now فلان وعلان And now And now And now أنه فوقه وأنه قد ربح عليه فلا يزال يرى نفسه دونه وكفى بهذا فضلا وشرفا للعفود The sheikh says Number 19 If you forgive Your opponent Your opponent's nefs He starts to feel That you are above him That you are higher than him And that you have Succeeded And he will see himself To be very low And the sheikh says وكفى بهذا فضلا وشرفا And that is enough For honor And nobility Number 20 The last one The 20th one أنه إذا عفا وصفحة كانت هذه حسنة If You forgive And you forget And you let go This is a reward كانت هذه حسنة It's an act of reward فتولد له حسنة أخرى This would then inherit you Another act of good وتلك الأخرى تولد له أخرى And that act would then give birth To another righteous act وهالوم جرى And let it go on Because we know Acts of good Give birth To another act of good And those of good Just keep opening فلا تزالوا حسناته في مزيدن And then all Your acts of obedience Are just growing فإن من ثواب الحسنة الحسنة Because from the reward of good Is another good to be done كما أن من عقاب السيئة Because from the punishments of sin Is السيئة To بعدها Another sin that it gives birth to Remember when you lie You lie again To help the previous lie Or to kind of cover the previous lie And then another one And another one The same is with good An act of good Will always bring you another act of good وربما كان هذا سببا لنجاتي وسعادتي الأبدية And the sheikh said This could probably be The reason of Prosperity and successful Life Infinite Success And a prosperity But if you give victory to yourself Or you take revenge You lose all of that opportunity And you won't gain that This was The Advice That sheikh waslam ibn Utamiya gave To help and aid a person To be patient With على أذ الخلق The harms that the creation can put you through And the sheikh mentions In this powerful meaning And it is upon every muslim To observe it To benefit from it So it can help him in the course of his life And to also try to be one Who fulfills this station الشيخ عبد الرزاق ابن عبد المحسن العباد Who explained this particular book He gives an advice at the ending Which I'm going to conclude with He says عبد الرزاق says I give advice Or two advices As a final conclusion He said The first advice that I give After he explained the book He said I give two advices As a final conclusion The first of the two is And And The second one Which he mentioned That a believer He continuously goes over these Twenty advices These twenty ways To attain patience From the harm of the creation To always look at it And try to Look at it And observe it Calmly Take your time Why حتى تتمكّن من نفسي وتتعمق في قلبه So it can settle into your heart properly And the second one he mentioned is النحرصة That we all strive على نشر هذه الفوائد العظيمة That we strive To spreading These benefits that the sheikh mentioned here And he mentioned ووسائل النشر And he said The ways that you can spread it Has now become different In terms of من الوسائل الإلكترونية In social media To benefit from that And spread it Also to write it If it hasn't been translated To try to translate it فإن الدال على الخير كفاعيه For verily The one who shows good Is like the one who did the good If you show the people the good And then they go and do it And then they go and do it And then And they go and do it You are like you Doing the good with them As our prophet said صلى الله عليه وسلم إن حديث صحيح مسلم On the authority of أبو أبي مسعودة لنصاري ربي الله تعالى عنه I conclude إن شاء الله تعالى أسأل الله العظيم أن يهدينا وسائر إخواننا سراطه المستقيم سراط الذين أن عمل الله عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن أولئك رفيقا وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا