Al-Ankaboot (The Spider)

59. “Those who are (patiently) steadfast and on their Lord do they rely.”

Patience and relying on Allah are two clear examples of righteous deed; and it is the righteous ones who must remove the spiritual pressures, barriers and difficulties of life by patience and relying on Allah.

This verse states the most important characteristics of the believers who act aright.

It says as follows:

“Those who are (patiently) steadfast and on their Lord do they rely.”

When it requires, they separate from their wife, children, friends, relatives, and houses and they tolerate patience. They taste the troubles of loneliness, the hardships of being vagrant from home, and they are patient.

In order to protect their Faith, they usually tolerate the hurts of the enemies, and receive kinds of difficulties in the path of struggling against their selves (which is ‘the greater’ warfare), and they are patient.

Yes, patience and perseverance are the secrets of their triumph, and they are two great factors for their honour, without which no positive action is possible in the life.

Moreover, they rely neither on their properties, nor on their friends and relatives. They rely only on Allah; and they trust only on His Pure Essence. If thousand of enemies try to destroy them, they stand firm and do not fear because they know Him as their friend.

If we think properly, we find out that the root of man’s all virtues is this very patience and relying on Allah. Patience is the cause of steadfastness in front of barriers and difficulties; and confidence is the motive of moving in this way which is full of ascent and descent.

For performing righteous deed we must get help from these two ethical virtues, patience and confidence. Without these two, doing righteous deed, in a large scale, is impossible.

Some Traditions On Patience and Confidence

1. The Messenger of Allah (S) said:

“Patience is a treasure out of the treasures of Paradise.”1

2. Imam Baqir (as) said:

“Verily the patient will enter Paradise without reckoning.”2

3. The Prophet (S) said:

“Whoever likes to be the most virtuous of people, he must rely on Allah.”3

4. Once Imam Rida (as) was asked what the limit of confidence was. He answered:

“That you do not be in owe of other than Allah.”4

5. The Messenger of Allah (S) said:

“The best people with Allah is the one who trusts on Allah more than others and surrenders to Him.”5