The Importance of Being Patient

I keep reminding myself and reminding you, my dear brothers and sisters, it's limited. It doesn't matter how long you will live, how long you're meant to live. Whatever you did in your life, it's gone. You're not going to get it back. Now part of that struggle in life is to be patient when you have a calamity that you cannot basically fix. If you've done your best, we're not saying that you were the perfect worshiper because no such thing, Allah expecting us to make mistakes, no problem. But if you use them to the best of your abilities, to thebest of your capabilities to worship Allah, then you are from the