3. He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: ‘When Allah Almighty loves someone or intends to make him His friend, then He Almighty inflicts him with the rain of calamities. Then, when that person calls upon his Lord Almighty saying ‘O my Lord Almighty!’, then Allah Almighty says, ‘O My bondman, I will grant you whatever you ask Me for. Either I will give it to you soon or store it for your Hereafter.’ (Attargheeb Wattarheeb, vol. 4, pp. 135, Raqm 5225) 

4. The Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: “Whoever faced a physical or financial calamity, then kept it concealed and did not reveal it upon people, then it is upon the mercy of Allah Almighty to forgive him.” (Majma’-uz-Zawaid, vol. 10, pp. 450, Hadees 17872)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Trial is not a calamity, but mercy

Dear Islamic sisters! We come to know that hardships and trials are not a means of calamity, but a means of mercy and blessing. Allah Almighty intends goodness for the one inflicted with calamity. The one struck with calamity has her sins forgiven. Allah Almighty blesses uncountable blessings to the one inflicted with trials and there is glad tidings of forgiveness from the court of Allah Almighty for the one who conceals her calamity.

After listening to so many virtues of observing patience over calamities, we shall develop a mind-set that no matter how many calamities befall upon us, we get surrounded by trials, flood of hardships overtakes us and diseases surround us from all corners, even then a single word of complain shall not be uttered from our tongue. Rather, we shall be lost in the imaginations of reward to be received upon observing patience over those calamities in such a way that we don’t even feel the pain anymore.

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, this is what we learn from the blessed Seerah of the righteous predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی that whenever they would face a calamity, then they would be lost in the imaginations of the reward to be received upon observing patience over it in such a way that they wouldn’t even feel the