03 Patience & Gratitude (Part 3) by Ibnu Qayyim
By Abu Muhammad al-Maghribi

Readings from Chapter 2 of Imam Ibnu Qayyim's Patience & Gratitude. The talk deals with the different types of patience and mankind's dire need of it.

Excerpt:
"Patience may be of two types, either physical or psychological, and both types may either be by choice, or without choice, as follows:
1. Physical patience by choice, such as doing hard labour willingly.
2. Physical patience without choice, such as patiently bearing illness, beatings and extremes of heat and cold.
3. Psychological patience by choice, such as refraining from things which both the Shariah and common sense say are wrong.
4. Psychological patience without choice, such as patiently bearing an enforced separation from one whom you love."

Lecture broadcasted at the Islamic Center of Palm Beach, Florida USA on Ramadan 10th, 1437 (June 15th, 2016) in cooperation with Masjid Tawheed (Stone Mountain, GA, USA).