Humility is fertile soil for the seeds of patience

"Seek help through patience and prayer, and indeed, it is difficult save for the humbly submissive." (Qur’an 02:45)

This verse tells us only the humble can be patient! Impatience is a fruit from the tree of arrogance. The reason impatience is related to arrogance is because impatience is when you are telling God that your timeline, your will, your deadline, and what you think is best for your life supersedes and is better than God's timing, will, and plan for you. Our Lordship and self-management is manifested through our attachment to our agendas over what God seeks for us. In other words, our impatience is a veiled face of arrogance where at it's we think we know better than God what is good for us and it is when we put our trust in our very limited subjective perspective of reality over having faith in God's Loving objective all encompassing Will and Knowledge. When we are in a state of impatience we are also in a state of resistance, closed off to the many unexpected blessings of Allah. Our narrowed vision of the world makes us inflexible, rigid, and thus on edge and easy to trigger if things don't go according to our plans. This is why we can gage our sense of surrender to Allah based on our level of patience.

The more patient we are, the more surrendered we are to God and His Will for us. True prayer and prostration is the state of utter humility where you bow to God and fully except yourself as a slave before the Origin of Love and before his Divine Supremacy. When we lack humility in prayer we end up praying in a way that is transactional, where we put in hours of worship and prayer not because we long to be with our Lord but because we expect to get paid in the form of our prayers answered. When we do this we make God the means to a worldly end instead of making the world and everything created a means to get us closer to God. When we know that impatience is a byproduct of arrogance is a blessing because it allows us to witness the places where we rely on ourselves instead of God as the main source of our guidance and helps us through that awareness to begin to surrender those places to God.