Is the believer rewarded and recompensed for his patience regarding his short stature, even as he wishes he were taller, by analogy with contentment or patience in the face of calamities?

What afflicts a person of what he dislikes and pains him is considered a calamity. Everything that burdens the soul and tires it is an affliction. Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab said: "Everything that afflicts a believer and he dislikes it is a calamity." So, if a person suffers due to his short stature and endures it with patience, without discontent or despair, because it is from the decree and destiny of Allah, then he is considered among the patient ones, and he will be rewarded for that, and it will expiate some of his sins, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "No fatigue, nor illness, nor anxiety, nor grief, nor harm, nor sorrow befalls a Muslim, even a thorn that pricks him, but Allah expiates some of his sins thereby."

However, he does not reach the rank of contentment as long as he wishes for a different state. Patience is restraining oneself from discontent despite the presence of pain, whereas contentment necessitates an open and expansive heart, and it lessens the feeling of pain. For this reason, many of the Salaf held that the content person does not wish for a state other than the one he is in, unlike the patient person.