Status Updates From Trials and Tribulations

whoever desires copious reward, to receive devout love and good mention, let him experience the bitterness of opposing his base desires and taking to the way we have highlighted: joining relations when they have been severed; giving in the face of prevention; hilm in the face of ignorance; and forgiveness in the face of oppression. These are the greatest morals and manners of the religious.

Ibn Hibban said, 'it is necessary that the intelligent accustom his soul to forgiving people and to leave repaying evil with evil. This is because there is nothing that would silence an evil better than good treatment and beneficence and there is nothing that would stir up evil more than repaying evil with evil...

Hilm (forbearance): Al-Jahidh; Tadhhib al-Aklaq said, it is the abandonment of taking revenge in the state of extreme anger, despite the ability to do so. al-Jurjani, at-Ta'rifat said, it is to be calm in the state of anger'.

If the person hoards the wealth, Allaah would prevent him from taking pleasure from it, and after his death it will merely be passed on to someone else; hence he will bear its sin and the inheritor will feel the joy of acquiring it.

Some translations do not match the line numbers; could have had better editing.

So far really touching. Ibn Qayyim is going in depth about the phenomenon of how when one gets closer to Allah their life seems to get worse but when they succumb to their whims and desires they enjoy life. Common thing that happens to many of us but it’s nothing more than a mere trial from Allah and there’s glad tidings to the believer who’s patient.