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Author:Abbas Taqvi
Length:56 Pages
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On Sabr

Patience as a Deliberate Spiritual Discipline

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A structural examination of sabr: what it is not, the three domains the tradition names, its moment-by-moment practice, its relationship to muhasaba and taqwa, its potential misuse as an excuse for tolerating injustice, and how the capacity for it is actually built.

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“This collection turns to sabr, patience, examined here not through any single figure biography but as a discipline in its own right. This first essay begins, deliberately, with what sabr is not, since this collection considers the term common contemporary usage to have drifted significantly from its actual meaning.”

Table of Contents

  • 1.Part One: What Sabr Is Not
  • 2.Part Two: The Three Domains of Sabr
  • 3.Part Three: Sabr in Practice
  • 4.Part Four: Sabr and the Other Disciplines
  • 5.Part Five: When Sabr Is Misused
  • 6.Part Six: Building the Capacity