The Importance of Enduring Troubles

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani (q.s.) said, that trials come afresh every day, and a seeker of the Path must be ready.  The purpose of trials is to turn affected faith into real faith.  They are an opportunity for every one to improve his station.  One still under the rule of his ego will be tested by that which his ego dislikes, through everything, from family, friends, work, and neighbours.  The way of development is the way of patience.  There is no quick development.  One must be agreeable to all happenings to and around himself. 

The sign of development is to endure peoples’ troubling of us.  It is not important to fly in the sky or to walk on the sea or to be seen in several places at once or to dream good dreams.  It is more important, in our way, to be patient, resisting every wave of evil like a mountain in a storm, not being pushed back.  That is development.  Or to be like the ocean, not becoming dirty from the rivers pouring into it.  People with extraordinary powers may fly, but may in the end lose their faith when Satan rushes to attack them.  We must be able to endure every harm from everyone. 

We must be awakened for everything coming contrary to our liking, and be ready to tolerate it.  This is the real station of faith.  The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, to keep religion in this time is more difficult than to keep fire in one’s hand.  We must be patient.  Allah (s.w.t.) Gives to those who endure trials Endless Reward.  It is the way of real faith, like the way of the prophets and of the saints, to endure the evils of people.