PRESENTER:...What is the difference between patience and endurance?

ADNAN OKTAR:Yes, right, that's an important question. Patience is mistaken with endurance. It is as if something troubles you but you endure it. It's not like that. For example, we are patient in good morality, for instance we defeat our anger but we don't endure it. We do it willingly with pleasure. Or for example, if we have 100 liras, we give 50 of it to someone else. This doesn't bother us, so it's not an issue that we will be patient about. Therefore, we are not patient in the sense of enduring it. We continue persistently in doing it, so determination and continuation is called patience. So patience is not getting loose in the face of time.

For example, we patiently struggle in the path of Allah, we show patience in good morality, we show patience in forgiving people, we are patient in acting genorous. Patience means continuation in religious observances. It is not endurance. Because endurance is like some people doing things – Allah is beyond that- with cursing; that would not be a religious observance, that's not how it is. He will do it with joy. He will do it for Allah's good pleasure, it will be a heartfelt act.

PRESENTER:Then what is the difference between the patience that we have to show in our relations with people and endurance?

ADNAN OKTAR:One should be very sincere and tolerant towards people. That is because humans are weak creatures, a friendship can be easily ended over a word or a chat. Or it can even be ended over a single look or any kind of move. You know what they say, "I wiped him off my life", or something like that; when this is the case, no one can have a relation with anyone else. A Muslim doesn't have such a morality. This type of behavior, wiping each other off their lives will end in the time of Mahdi. That is not acceptable. This has no place in the morality of a Muslim. If one has a mistake, you try to correct his mistake insistently. But the relationship is not cut off with that person. You try to correct that person patiently by one way, if that doesn't work then from some other way, if not then from another way. People would be left alone in the world as the result of such cutting one off their lives. No one can be friends with one another now. It's very rare, almost everyone is alone. Or they have two friends or one friend. Or he has  no friends. That two friends are actually half a friend. Right? Or a quarter of a friend, that way. This stems from not being able to find an open mind to connect with. That is because there is a sort of tension and anger in  people. It is like waiting for the other to make a mistake so that he can cut him off his life, I mean like waiting to see an imperfection in him to give up on him. That mentality dominates the whole world. For example, they say "As-salamu Alaykum" and "Alaykum as-salam." It's difficult for them even to meet. Even getting acquainted is a problem, and after that selling him off is only a matter of time. Or he says "I'm irritated" for no reason. "What is the reason?" He says "there is no reason, I'm irritated." He ends everything because of his anger towards humans, that is it.  Whereas one must definitely look with compassion, for instance in compassion the mood of getting irritated does not exist. When they do not approach eachother with compassion, they will surely be irritated. If someone does not know compassion or love, he gets irritated with everything.