Quotes About Tests and Hardship

“There is a blessing in calamity that the wise man should not ignore, for it erases sins, gives one the opportunity to attain the reward for patience, dispels negligence, reminds one of blessings at the time of health, calls one to repent and encourages one to give charity.

al-Fadl ibn Sahl

“Too often we understand our sorrows, our pain, our suffering in terms of guilt. As if he had to pay. The teaching is sometimes the exact opposite… “God tests those He loves” is not a call not to cultivate our guilt but to think our spiritual strength, our ability to rise to the challenge, to nurture our trust in Him. Suffering and pain then do not reveal the guilt of a victim. Rather, they are awakening a responsible consciousness that calls each of us to stand up, to resist and overcome suffering. As a free and humble soul who resists, not as a passive victim who complains.

Tariq Ramadan

“Those who believe in God do not suffer from doubt in the truthfulness of His promise, and in the deep-rootedness of truth in the building of the cosmos and the systems that govern it, and in His support for Truth that He throws at falsehood an invalidates it. If God tests them by the victory of falsehood for a while, they know that it is a test, and they can sense that their Lord is training and mentoring them because of a weakness or shortcoming in them, and that He is preparing them for welcoming a triumphant Truth.

Sayyid Qutb

“The bigger the goal is, the longer the road will be.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“There is always a solution, there is always a way out, so long as there is faith.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Imam al-Shafi`ee was asked: "What's better for the believer, to be tested, or to be given power (to do good)?" He said: "And how can one be given power for good without first being tested? Allah tested Yusuf, peace be upon him, then He gave him power."

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you’re failing the test.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“When calamity hits, we start feeling like Allah owes us something. Allah owes us nothing. We owe Allah everything.

Nouman Ali Khan

“More than one person has said to me: "When I repent to Him; [turn to (Him) in obedience, avoiding disobedience, depending on him and seeking refuge in Him] and performing righteous actions; my sustenance is straitened and difficulty comes upon my livelihood. However, when I return to disobeying Him and give my soul its desires, then sustenance, relief and other than it comes to me.’’ So I said to some of them: "This is a test from Him to see whether you are truthful or untruthful in your seeking refuge with Him, responding and submitting to Him in obedience and exercising patience upon (what He has decreed of afflictions for you with absolute justice and wisdom) so that there are (good) end results for you; or whether you are untruthful so that you return to what you were upon (of evil)."

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn towards God.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Whoever wants to have everlasting peace and well-being with no affliction does not understand the meaning of Allah’s commandments, nor does he perceive the meaning of submission to Allah. Every soul (either believing or disbelieving) shall inevitably taste suffering in this world, for this life is based on hardships. Man lives between comfort and suffering.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

Yasmin Mogahed

“From the perfection of Allah’s ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Allah said to Musa (AS): “And I have prepared thee for Myself (for service)” (20:41).
Some of us want to run the marathon without the training. We forget that even dough is prepared before it becomes bread. Your soul is being prepared. Like dough, it’s kneaded. Don’t lose yourself in the pain of kneading. Rise above your circumstance. Rise above your pain. Every process has its conclusion. Every circumstance comes to an end. Your circumstance is only the tool. *You* are the one being prepared and raised and developed. You are the one being grown. Rise up beyond this pain. Rise up and see through. There is something greater waiting for you on the other side: The stronger, purer, freer you.
Remember: He is greater than this pain. He is greater. Allahu Akbar.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!

Yasmin Mogahed

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