COURAGE YIELDS ELEVEN VIRTUES

1– Serious mindedness: Insusceptibility to emotional pronenesses such as elation when praised and dejection when criticized. The person in possession of this gift holds rich and poor equal and does not discriminate between joy and sorrow.

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His work and effort are unshaken by a change in the environment or in difficult or fearful circumstances. 

2– Bravery (najdat): Patience and endurance in frightening situations and difficult circumstances and not complaining and not acting inappropriately in those situations. 

3– Having zeal and endeavor (having himmat): Person gifted with this virtue does not care about worldly ranks, positions, promotions or demotions.

4– Perseverence (thabât): Putting up with difficulties on the way toward one’s goal; resisting destructive forces or agencies on the way to success.

5– Mildness (hilm): Calmness of the soul; being gentle and mild and avoiding anger.

6– Calmness (sukûn): Having the necessary strength, perseverance and resistance during a war while defending the country, the religion, and the nation against the enemy, and not becoming a laughing stock of the enemy.

7– Being ingenious (shahâmat): Strong desire to do good deeds and attain high ranks; also strong desire to be remembered in good terms and persistent devotion to doing good deeds in order to earn thawâbs (rewards in the Hereafter).

8– Enduring troubles (tahammul): Undaunted steadiness in developing good habits and performing good deeds.

9– Humility (tawâdu’): Maintaining a non boastful attitude towards those who are inferior in worldly terms. For, whatsoever a person has attained in the name of goodness is merely a kindness of Allâhu ta’âlâ. He is a mere nothing. Those who have attained worldly ranks and richness should show humbleness and thereby earn rewards (thawâbs). To display humbleness in order to obtain worldly gains or to avoid worldly difficulty is called fawning (tabasbus). An example of this is a beggar’s expression of humility, which is a sin.

10– Sense of honor (hamiyyat): Not being slack in protecting and defending one’s nation, religion and honor; employing all one’s ability, strength and effort in this duty.

11– Riqqat: Not worrying about the problems that are caused by human beings. One’s behavior and attitude should not change because of the problems caused by other people. One should not stop doing good deeds because of the troubles

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and harms one is suffering from others.