calamities

It is reported that Shurayh – rahimahullaah – said,

“If I am afflicted with a calamity, I praise Allaah for it four times: I praise Him because it wasn’t worse than it was, I praise Him when He gives me the patience to bear it, I praise Him for enabling me to say al-istirja' (‘To Allaah we belong and to him we will return’) in hope of a great reward, and I praise Him for not making it a calamity in my religion.”

(Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A’lam Al-Nubala, in his biography of Shurayh Al-Qadi)



“He whom Allah has predestined to enter Paradise, the reasons which will cause his entrance shall spring from calamities; and he whom Allah has predestined to enter the Hellfire, the reasons which will cause his entrance shall spring from lusts.”

– Ibn Al-Qayyim