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Ṣabr

Patience: steadfast endurance in the face of trial, a station of the Sufi path.

Also: Sabr, patience

Sufism and Islamic thought

Ṣabr is patience and perseverance, praised often in the Qurʾān: God is with the patient. Sufi teachers distinguish patience in obedience, in refraining from sin and in affliction, and its higher forms of patience with God and in God.