۞ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًۭا
Qaala alam aqul laka innaka lan tastatee'a ma'iya sabraa
[Al-Khidh r] said, "Did I not tell you that with me you would never be able to have patience?"
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Patience
18:75Ayah 1110
6 ayahs in Al-Kahf are strongly about patience. This is one of them.
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He said ‘Did I not say to you that you would never be able to bear with me?’ laka ‘to you’ has been added to that same statement which was made before because this time there could not be any excuse for Moses’s impatience.
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The Messenger of Allah said: "(Real) Patience is at the first stroke of the calamity."
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to me: I can well discern when you are pleased with me and when you are annoyed with me. I said: How do you discern it? Thereupon be said: When you are pleased with me you say;" No, by the Lord of Muhammad," and when you are annoyed with me, you say:" No, by the Lord of Ibrahim." I said: Allah's Messenger, by Allah, I in fact leave your name (when I am annoyed with you).
"I heard Anas say: 'The Messenger of Allah said: True patience is that which comes at the first blow."'
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