فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تُطِعْ مِنْهُمْ ءَاثِمًا أَوْ كَفُورًۭا
Fasbir lihukmi Rabbika wa laa tuti' minhum aasiman aw kafooraa
So be patient for the decision of your Lord and do not obey from among them a sinner or ungrateful [disbeliever].
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76:24Ayah 131
2 ayahs in Al-Insaan are strongly about patience. This is one of them.
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So submit patiently to your Lord’s decree to you to deliver His Message and do not obey of them that is of the disbelievers any sinner or disbeliever namely ‘Utba b. Rabī‘a and al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra — both of whom said to the Prophet s ‘Abandon this affair of yours!’; it is also possible that what is meant is every sinner or disbeliever in other words ‘Do not obey any of these whichever of the two he may be in what he may summon you to of sin or disbelief’.
Related Hadiths
The supplication of one of you is granted if he does not grow impatient and say- I supplicated my Lord but it was not granted.
One who dislikes a thing done by his Amir should be patient over it, for anyone from the people who withdraws (his obedience) from the government, even to the extent of a handspan and died in that conditions, would die the death of one belonging to the days of jahilliyya.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Whoever notices something which he dislikes done by his ruler, then he should be
patient, for whoever becomes separate from the company of the Muslims even for a span and then
dies, he will die as those who died in the Pre-lslamic period of Ignorance (as rebellious sinners).
(Fath-ul-Bari page 112, Vol. 16)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Whoever disapproves of something done by his ruler then he should be patient, for
whoever disobeys the ruler even a little (little = a span) will die as those who died in the Pre-lslamic
Period of Ignorance. (i.e. as rebellious Sinners).
The supplication of the servant is granted in case he does not supplicate for sin or for severing the ties of blood, or he does not become impatient. It was said: Allah's Messenger, what does:" If he does not grow impatient" imply? He said: That he should say like this: I supplicated and I supplicated but I did not find it being responded. and theu he becomes frustrated and abandons supplication.
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