Allah said in a Qudsi Hadeeth, � Oh Son of Adam if you are patient and sacrificed for Allah�s reward when you receive the first shock of an affliction I wouldn�t accept less than Paradise (Jennah) for you as a reward for you.�

Allah said in Holy Quran:
Say: "O ye My servants who believe! Fear your Lord. Good is (the reward) for those who do good in this world. Spacious is Allah's earth! Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!" 39:10

And said:
Verily with every difficult situation there is a relief. 94:6

Prophet Ayoub (Job) told his wife when she asked him to ask Allah for a relief from his sickness, � I�m shy from my God to ask him because I haven�t spent in this difficult situation except a short time if compared to the time I was in good health.�

Our Prophet pbuh said, � Whoever encounters a difficult situation or an affliction let him say Allah, Allah I never associate any partners with Him. Allah would wash away his bad situation and the things that bother him.�

Allah said in the Quran:
Every soul shall have a taste of death: and We test you by evil and by good by way of trial. To Us must ye return. 21:35

Trial:
Trial is not disliked in itself but the result of it is disliked. If one is patient and tolerant under trial then he succeeded in this trial. This is what�s liked in Trials. Allah almighty knows all our characteristics before he put us under trials but these tests are for people to test and take example from one another.

Allah said in the Quran:
Now, as for man, when his Lord trials him, giving him honors and gifts, then he says, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honored me. "But when he trials him, restricting his subsistence for him, then he says (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!" 89:15-16


A story:
A man named Thalabah used to be called �the dove of the Masjid� (Mosque) because he used to attend all the prayers in it.
He once came to the Prophet pbuh and asked him to ask Allah to make him rich. The Prophet told him to be satisfied with what Allah gave him but he insisted 3 times. The Prophet asked Allah for him and he became very rich and when it was time for him to pay Zakat (Charity) he replied is it a punishment?
The Prophet then refused to accept his Zakat and so did the Caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar after the Prophet�s pbuh death.

Blessing wouldn�t be considered an honoring from Allah to His servant unless Allah gives him the ability to behave wisely in it.
The taking away of this blessing wouldn�t be an insult or harm to the servant unless Allah prevents this servant from paying Allah�s rights in this blessing.

Allah�s right in the blessing is for us to praise Him for it.

Kinds of trials:
Trial servants have no hand in them.
Trial servants have hands in them.

Allah said:

We have tried them with both prosperity and adversity: in order that they might turn (to Us). 7:168

And said:
Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return" 2:156

The Prophet pbuh said, � If some body faced difficulties in life let him say - we are for Allah and to him we will return. In you I content myself in this difficulty, oh Allah give me refuge from it and replace me better than it.�

A story:
Om Salamh (a female companion) when her husband died she said these words. After a while Abu Bakr proposed to her but she refused, then Omar proposed to her but she refused, then the Prophet pbuh proposed to her and she accepted.

The Prophet pbuh said, � whatever harms a believer even if it was a thorn or more, Allah would elevate the believer with this difficulty a degree higher or might forgive one of the sins he made.�

The reasons that lead for being tolerant when hardships happen:
1. To believe it is from Allah and people have nothing to do with it.
Allah said:
Now await in patience the Command of they Lord: for verily the art in Our eyes: and celebrate the praises of they Lord the while thou standest forth. 52:48

2. To lean on Allah and return things to Him.
Allah said:
And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if anyone puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him. For Allah will surely accomplish His purpose: verily, for all things has Allah appointed a due proportion. 56:3

3. To know that Allah chose you for this test.
Allah said:
Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!"
And said:
For Allah is with those who are patient.

4. Allah�s knowledge of your conditions.

5. To know that it's given from Allah.

6. Allah after testing you with hardships would ease them on you because you would return to Him with prayers and asking.

7. Patience inherit satisfaction.

8. To feel closeness to Allah at times of hardship.
Allah said:
Or, who listens to the (soul) distressed when it calls on Him, and who relieves its suffering, and makes you (mankind) inheritors of the earth? (Can there be another) god besides Allah? Little it is that ye heed! 27:62

9. To know that you have gained good rewards for this patience.

10. To know that comfort and ease come along with hardships and difficulties.
Allah said:
Verily with every difficult situation there is a relief. 94:6

If a servant understands these matters then he would be the most patient of all.

Ahmad & Linda

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