Masnavi, Book II, Story 10

SufismMasnavi, Book II, Story 10

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies; / The kernel is soft when the rind is scraped off. / O brother, the place of darkness and cold / Is the fountain of life and the cup of ecstasy. / So also is endurance of pain and sickness and disease. / For from abasement proceeds exaltation. / The spring seasons are hidden in the autumns, / And autumns are charged with springs; flee them not. …

⏳ Patience in hardship

The same idea in other traditions

IslamQuran 94:5-6

So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief: Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.

ConfucianismAnalects 15.27

The Master said, "Specious words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans."

BuddhismDhammapada 258

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

JudaismEcclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; And the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

JainismUttaradhyayana 29.67

By conquering anger he obtains patience; he acquires no Karman productive of anger, and destroys the Karman he had acquired before.

ChristianityRomans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

SikhismSGGS Ang 1384

Let patience be your purpose in life; implant this within your being. In this way, you will grow into a great river; you will not break off into a tiny stream.