Trials are beneficial to the Believers

It is extremely difficult to have faith while waiting. Delays are painful. But they certainly are blessings through and through, only if you change your perspective and you choose to view them as such.

❝Trials are beneficial to the Believers, because Allah corrects and improves them because of it!❞
– Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله
[مجموع الفتاوى ٢٨/٥٠]

You can’t learn gratitude without loss. You can’t learn to appreciate abundance without lack. You can’t learn how to love without disappointments.  And you can’t learn companionship without lonely nights.

Believe me, I know how difficult it can be to find hope when everything feels so very dark.

Pain ends.
Fear ends.
Anxiety ends.

In time, you will find your way again.

❝Endure the nights of hardship because if you look through the eye of patience, you shall see the dawn of reward. Indeed the lofty ranks can be attained only by undergoing hardship.❞
– Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله
[Al-Lata’if fil-Wa’iz]

As you lie in pain, waiting for your life to change, remember that Allah has a plan for you and it is good! Allah never disappoints His believing slaves.

And if you ever feel your trials are never ending….
Remember what Imam Ahmad told his son..

In this life of poverty, hardship and trials, Abdullah ibn Ahmad asked his father Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal one day, “Abi when will we ever relax?” His father, one of the greatest revivers of the Sunnah, a role model for all Muslims, looked him in the eye and said, “With the first step we take into Jannah.”

❝Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of duaa. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.❞
– Ibn al Qayyim  رحمه الله

 Ya Allah grant us Istiqamah and husn adh dhan billah during our blessings and our hardships – Ameen! ♡