Patience according to the Five Rulings
Patience is divided into Wajib (obligatory), Mandub (recommended), Madhur (interdict), Makruh (reprehensible) and Mubah (permissible).
Obligatory patience has three kinds: patience in abstaining from what is forbidden, patience in performing what is obligatory, and patience during calamities which are beyond man’s control like illness, poverty and others.
Recommended patience is that is held in abstaining from what is disliked, in performing what is liked and in abstaining from taking revenge from others.
Interdict patience has many kinds. For example, there are holding patience in abstaining from eating and drinking to death, and abstaining from eating dead meat, blood and pork during famine when death is inevitable unless man eats them. Tawus and Imam Ahmad said: “Whoever is obliged to eat dead meat or blood and he does not and then he dies, he will enter Hell-fire.”
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