What did Ibn al-Qayyim say about patience?
Ibn al-Qayyim treated patience as the twin of gratitude — one for the hardship, one for the ease. He called ṣabr the strongest cavalry in the army of the believer.
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The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Imam al-Ghazali — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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