Life
is a strain to which every believer is called to deal with a lot of patience.
God commands the believer repeatedly in the Holy Quran to persevere in patience
and constancy in the face of disasters and hardships of life. In that patience
lies the happiness of the hereafter.
"If
Allah gives you His help, none can overcome you. If He forsakes you, who is
there then that can assist you after Him? In Allah the believers must put their
trust." (3:161)
Misfortunes and calamities that visit the believer from God, such as, impatience and frustration cannot eliminate them. The believer must put absolute and clear trust in Allah to be spared from all harm because no one else can help him except God. Anything that affects the Muslim, be it exhaustion, disease, sorrow, pain, suffering or distress, "surely, God is with those who are patient." (2:154)