Seek help through patience

2.45. Seek help through patience (and fasting, which requires and enables great patience), and through the Prayer. Indeed the Prayer is burdensome, but not for those humbled by their reverence of God:

45. Seek help through patience⁵⁴
(and fasting, which requires and enables great patience), and through
the Prayer. Indeed the Prayer is burdensome, but not for those humbled
by their reverence of God:

54. It can be said that patience is the
half of Islam, the other half being thankfulness. The patience shown
just at the moment when misfortune strikes is true patience. With
respect to the situations requiring it, patience can be divided into the
following categories:

• enduring the difficulties of fulfilling the duty of servanthood to God or steadfastness in performing regular acts of worship;
  
• resisting the temptations to sin of the carnal soul and Satan;
  
• enduring heavenly or earthly calamities, which entails resignation to Divine decrees;
  
• steadfastness in following the Straight Path without deviancy in spite of worldly attractions and distractions;
  
• showing no haste in pursuing those of one's hopes or plans that require a stretch of time to achieve.
  

Because
fasting requires prohibiting to the carnal soul the things of which it
is most enamored – eating, drinking, and sexual relations, as well as
lying, backbiting and gossip – it strengthens and deepens the believer's
willpower. Accordingly fasting as a duty of worship has come to be
regarded as identical with patience. For this reason, the meaning of
“patience” in the verse includes fasting.