Category: Tazkiyah

• Relationship between patience and gratitude
• When to show patience
• Benefits of hardships (finding grace in every hardship)
• Aspects to be pleased with when adversity afflicts
• Which has priority: patience or gratitude?

Who is closer to Allah: the wealthy who is grateful or the poor who is patient?

Definitions and types of Allah’s bounties, favors and grace

• What benefits in this world and the hereafter
• What harms you in this world and the hereafter
• What benefits in the hereafter but loss in this world
• What benefits in this world but loss in the hereafter
• How to tell if a bounty benefits you
• Distractions of money and how to use it to your benefit
• Greatest investments: health and time

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

• Patience as a treatment for diseases of the heart
• How to use patience as treatment for suspicion and whisperings of the devil
• The importance of not giving up and always believing in the divine blessings
• The importance of not being “seasonal Muslims”

• Categories of Patience
• The role of trials and affliction in life
• Reflecting on the trials of prophets and their reactions
• Manners of patient when they are first stricken with calamity

• Definition of Sabr
• Types of Allah’s Decrees
• Patience during times of ease and times of hardship
• The fruits of patience
• The relationship between patience(sabr) and gratitude (shukr)

• Preventing sin is better than treatment
• Using Ibadah and positive action as treatment
• Countering Desires with Patience
• Countering heedlessness with Knowledge
• The role of scholars in treatment

• What turns Minor Sins to Major Sins
• Prerequistes of Repentance
• Types of people who are in continual repentance
• Treatment for Repentance

• Definition of tawbah
• Evidence of the importance of repenting frequently
• The conditions of repentance
• The four categories of sin