Every soul shall taste death, and We are testing you through both disaster and good fortune, and in the end you will be brought back to Us.
{21:35}
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "A person will be tested according to his religious commitment. The stronger his religion, the harder he'll be tested".
Umar bin Alkhattab also said: "We were tested through hardships and we bore them with patience. Yet when we were tested with pleasures, we were impatient in enjoying them and were thankless to God".
Makes you think twice about what comes your way! I guess we shouldn't always see good things as pleasures when they can be the reason we forget God or become thankless. Because in that sense, that good becomes a test. At the same time, a hardship could be a means of return to our creator, or as the Prophet stated, a sign that our religious commitment to God is in tact. Not everything is black and white. We need to read between the lines sometimes. As the verse says, tests and tribulations come in forms of good and bad fortune to us.
May God help us recognize these tests and elevate our faith because of them. Ameen.
