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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Secrets of Success Patience and Perseverance Patience and perseverance, tolerance and forbearance are common traits of the world’s most successful people. Patience is a very high quality of man. Sometimes one errs in differentiating between patience on one hand and laziness, inaction, tolerating oppression and relying on luck on the other.

Whereas patience and forbearance guarantees victory and success while laziness and inaction causes misfortune and results in failure. Now we shall explain the difference between these two opposing qualities illustrating them through different examples: A gardener desires that there be so many flowers in his garden that it always remains fragrant and the different colors of the flowers please the eyes and the atmosphere of the garden remains good.

If the gardener wants it to be so he must work hard. He should endure the sun and heat and cold and rain. He must become habituated to the pricking of thorns also and he ought to visit his garden often. Hardships that one must endure to attain the goal are termed as patience. If a trader wishes to earn profits and increase his wealth he must undertake arduous land, sea and air journeys.

If a student desires good marks, a diplomat intends to woo the people they must work hard with utmost steadfastness and determination. Regarding this Hafiz Shirazi says: Patience and success are friends of each other, Success comes as a result of patience. One may wonder why as the causes of success ‘steadfastness and firm resolve’ is not discussed along with ‘work and effort’. It is so because there is a difference between the two.

There are some people who do make efforts in the beginning, yet they break down when confronted with difficulties. Looking from this angle, steadfastness and endurance should be regarded as the supports of work and effort. They must be considered as the motive forces assuring that the work continue unceasingly. Every triumph is not of the same kind. Sometimes it arrives early and sometimes it takes a long time.

One must not expect that everything would be done in the same manner and that everything will end in success. Works differ from one another. There are some easy jobs, which must be undertaken in difficult circumstances. Moreover the capacities and capabilities of people also are different. It is possible but the degrees of their intelligence may not be the same.