You get the chicken by hatching the egg -- not by smashing it.

Some benefits of patience:

• Patience keeps you from getting bored during serious activities that require continuous energy and time.
• Patience keeps you from rushing on tasks that require much time.
• Patience controls you during times of anger and prevents you from committing wrong verbal or physical acts.
• Patience controls you during conditions of fear and prevents you from committing wrong verbal or physical acts.
• Patience controls you from greediness and prevents you from committing wrong verbal or physical acts.



• Patience controls you from following your own desires.
• Patience prepares you to withstand physical or psychological hardship when it is required.
• Practicing patience is proof of the completion of faith and it is a good practice of Islam.
• Practicing patience gives you guidance in your heart.
• Practicing patience will lead you to being loved by Allah (S.W.T.) and the people.



• Practicing patience is required in positions of power and authority.
• Practicing patience will make a person enter Paradise and it will save him from the hellfire.
• Practicing patience will always keep you under the protection and care of Allah (S.W.T.).
• Practicing patience will protect you from the fear on the Day of Judgment.
• Practicing patience will lead you to die as a good Muslim.
• Finally, Practicing patience will give you the blessings and mercy of Allah (S.W.T.).

"The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg -- not by smashing it."

Arnold Glasow