Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Limit to patience and when to retaliate

“Is there a limit to patience? What if some community takes advantage of your situation just because we are being patient? Till when should we not retaliate?”Asked by عرفان علی, گوالیئر

He answers at 1:10:22 in Dars-e-Quran, Chapter 2, Verses 44-46 · 3 min 35 sec

His answer, in his own words
1:10:22
, dawat yani dawat mission mein jinho ne struggle kiya, woh Allah ki mohabbat se kharij hain. tab mein ne samjha ke yahan yeh murad larai hai hi nahi, is is struggle murad hai. struggle koshish. Maulana, agla sawal gwalior se hai irfan ali sahib ka. unho ne likha hai: "Maulana sahib! az der ul mit to Patience? What if some community takes advantage of your situation just because we are being patient? Till when? should we not retaliate?" bhai, patience to ibadat hai. limit kis liye? aap kahenge Khuda ki yaad ke liye limit hai? kaise ajeeb ghareeb log hain
1:11:16
jo jante nahi ke sabr ko Quran mein sab se bari bataya gaya hai? ibadat, sab se bari ibadat, us ki bhi limit rahe gi? patience ki limit hi nahi koi hai. woh to sari zindagi ke liye "inma sabir ujru" baghair hisab. yeh Quran ki ayat hai. sab se bari bekhabri yeh hai ke log jante hi nahi ke sabr, sabr amal hai. yeh yaad rakhein, yeh jo lafz hai ke baghair hisab, yani roze ke liye, namaz ke liye, na Umrah ke liye, na haj ke liye, sirf sabr ke liye hai.
1:12:06
log umra ke liye toot pade hain. makka mein jayen to sare sir saal wahan bheed rehti hai. to kahan quran mein likha hua hai ke jo umra karenge, unko bila hisab kitab haj mile ga? kahan likha hai? kahan likha hai? sab se bada sabr quran mein bataya gaya hai patience ke liye.
1:12:34
to sirf had kya hai? koi had hi nahi is ki. دیکھیے، اصل بات کیا ہے؟ لوگوں کا معیار یعنی criterion بدل گیا ہے۔ patience ka matlab hai process, process of personality development. پیشنس کا مطلب ہے process of personality development.
1:13:10
to shakhsi irtiqaa, wo to hamesha jaari rahega, hamesha jaari rahega. تو یاد رکھیے، patience جو ہے، یا صبر جو ہے، کوئی علیحدہ چ yaz nahi hai, hamari zindagi ka part hai. اور اس کا مطلب ہے process of intellectual development, جو process of personality development, اس کی کوئی حد
1:13:41
hi nahi hai. wo to karna hi karna hai apni, kyunke personality development ka kaam to sari sari zindagi jaari rahega. maulana, agla sawal ahmedabad se bheja hai shariq khan sahab ne, aur unhone aapse poocha
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