Spiritual Perseverance

O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient.

Then if they deny you, [O Muhammad] - so were messengers denied before you, who brought clear proofs and written ordinances and the enlightening Scripture.

And follow what is revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and be patient until Allah will judge. And He is the best of judges.

And be patient, for indeed, Allah does not allow to be lost the reward of those who do good.

So do not let one avert you from it who does not believe in it and follows his desire, for you [then] would perish.

[Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.

And Our word has already preceded for Our servants, the messengers,

[That] indeed, they would be those given victory

And remember Our servant Job, when he called to his Lord, "Indeed, Satan has touched me with hardship and torment."

Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and earth and did not fail in their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes. Indeed, He is over all things competent.

So be patient, [O Muhammad], as were those of determination among the messengers and do not be impatient for them. It will be - on the Day they see that which they are promised - as though they had not remained [in the world] except an hour of a day. [This is] notification. And will [any] be destroyed except the defiantly disobedient people?

When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

We will brand him upon the snout.

And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.