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believers' needs, and avoiding slips of ingratitude and vanity.
Advantages of Patience
Patience is the shelter of the grievous because it supplies with tranquility. It is also security against intolerance and anxiety. Without patience, the afflicted people would fall in and become the prey of mental and physical defects. Patience, too, is the expected hope due to which God has prepared the great rewards.
How to Acquire Patience?
To acquire patience it is recommended:
(1) To look in the virtues and nice traits of patience.
(2) To ponder over the disadvantages that impatience leaves on people's lives. Impatience does not settle a need, save from acts of God, or change a reality. It only results in wearisome. In his How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie says: "In the last eight years, I have read every book, magazine, and article that dealt with worry. Do you want to know the wisest and most beneficial advice that I extracted through such prolonged survey? It is 'satisfy yourself with the inescapable.'"
(3) To sympathize with the actuality of this life, which is based upon troubles and concerns. Indeed, this world is not the abode of comfort. It is a transitory place of test for the believers. Like students who exhaust themselves in the tests for sake of obtaining high grades, the believers in this world are examined for recognizing the scope of their faith and conviction:
"Do people think they will not be tested because they say, 'We have faith?' We had certainly tried those who lived before them to make sure who were truthful in their faith and who were liars (29:2-3)."
