Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech

Anxiety

Anxiety الجزع

1. Anxiety during hardship completes [and enhances] the calamity.

1ـ اَلجَزَعُ عِنْدَ البَلاءِ مِنْ تَمامِ المِحْنَةِ.

2. Anxiety during adversity is severer than the adversity itself.

2ـ اَلجَزَعُ عِنْدَ المُصيبَةِ أشَدُّ مِنَ المُصيبَةِ.

3. The adversity is one, but if you become anxious it becomes twofold.

3ـ اَلمُصيبَةُ واحِدَةٌ، وإنْ جَزَعَتْ صارَتْ اِثْنَـتَيْنِ.

4. Adversity [endured] with patience is the better of the two adversities.

4ـ اَلمُصيبَةُ بِالصَّبْرِ أعْظَمُ المُصيبَتَيْنِ.

5. Anxiety does not ward off destiny, rather it blocks recompense.

5ـ اَلجَزَعُ لايَدْفَعُ القَدَرَ ولكِنْ يُحـْبِطُ الأجْرَ.

6. Anxiety during adversity increases it whereas patience ends it.

6ـ اَلجَزَعُ عِنْدَ المُصيبَةِ يَزيدُها، والصَّبْرُ عَلَيْها يُبيدُها.

7. Overcome anxiety with patience, for anxiety voids recompense and magnifies the calamity.

7ـ إغْلِبُوا الجَزَعَ بِالصَّبْرِ، فإنَّ الجَزَعَ يَحبِطُ الأجرَ،

8. Anxiety is [a cause of] destruction.

8ـ اَلجَزَعُ هَلاكٌ.

9. Anxiety is one of the assistants of the [difficult] time.

9ـ اَلجَزَعُ مِنْ أعوانِ الزَّمانِ.

10. Anxiety magnifies the calamity.

10ـ اَلجَزَعُ يُعَظِّمُ المِحْنَةَ.

11. Anxiety is more exhausting than patience.

11ـ اَلجَزَعُ أتْعَبُ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ.

12. If you are [one who gets] anxious about all that has escaped from your hands, then be anxious about what has not reached you.

12ـ إنْ كُنْتَ جازِعاً على كُلِّ ما يَفْلِتُ مِنْ يَدَيْكَ فَاجْزَعْ

13. With excessive anxiety, the calamity is magnified.

13ـ بِكَثْرَةِ الجَزَعِ تَعْظُمُ الفَجيعَةُ.

14. Counter anxiety with patience.

14ـ ضادُّوا الجَزَعَ بِالصَّبْرِ.

15. There is no recompense with anxiety.

15ـ لَيْسَ مَعَ الجَزَعِ مَثُوبَةٌ.

16. Whoever becomes anxious, his adversity increases.

16ـ مَنْ جَزَعَ عَظُمَتْ مُصيبَتُهُ.

17. One who is overcome by anxiety is deprived of the merit of patience.

17ـ مَنْ ملَكَهُ الجَزَعُ حُرِمَ فَضيلَةَ الصَّبرِ.

18. One who becomes anxious has tormented himself, neglected the command of Allah, the Glorified, and sold off his reward.

18ـ مَنْ جَزَعَ فَنَفْسَهُ عَذَّبَ، وأمْرَ اللّهِ سُبْحانَهُ أضاعَ،

19. Do not get anxious in the [face of] little that you dislike for it will put you in a lot of what you dislike.

19ـ لاتَجزَعُوا مِنْ قَليلِ ماأكْرَهَكُمْ (كَرِهْتُم)، فَيُوقِعَكُمْ

20. Patience and anxiety do not go together.

20ـ لا تَجْتَمِعُ الصَّبْرُ والجَزَعُ.