Ṣabr jamīl: complain only to Allah. The prophetic discipline of Yaʿqūb.

Ibn al-Qayyim wrote at length on ṣabr jamīl in ʿUddat aṣ-Ṣābirīn. The structural discipline involves three distinct restraints: (1) restraint of the tongue from complaining to other-than-Allah; (2) restraint of the heart from anger at the qadar; (3) restraint of the limbs from acts of grief that violate Sunnah (slapping the cheek, tearing clothes, etc.). All three combine to produce the named jamīl-quality. Yaʿqūp ʿalayhi-s-salām is the structural worked example: he lost two sons (Yūsuf, Binyāmīn) and a third effectively (the eldest who refused to return); his patience was so prolonged that he eventually lost his eyesight from weeping. Yet his complaint-channel remained restricted to Allah ('I only complain of my grief and sorrow to Allah'). The classical scholars: this is the maximum structural display of ṣabr jamīl in the Quran. The believer's task is to match the proportional discipline in his own difficulties: smaller difficulties demand the same beautiful-patience-pattern, scaled appropriately. Modern social media's complaint-broadcasting is structurally counter-jamīl; the discipline is private duʿāʾ paired with public composure.