♥ ❝Indeed when a person faces calamities with patience [but] without hoping for a reward from Allaah, the calamity will become an expiation for his sins. And if he shows patience along with hoping for a reward [from Allaah], then along with being an expiation for his sins it becomes a "good recompense and reward". And the meaning of hoping for Allaah’s reward [al-Ihtisaab] is that a person believes that he will soon be rewarded for the patience [he is showing], sohe makes good his thoughts about Allaah andthus Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, will give him [a reward] according to what he thoughtof Him.❞ ♥ ~Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen (rahimahullah)