Allāh might give you a very precious gift wrapped in hardship. IF you’re patient, the wrappings will unravel and you’ll get your gift.…
He [Yaqūb] said, “I complain of my suffering and my grief only to Allāh Yūsuf:86 Anything that grieves a person, anything that deeply bothers them and that causes them to become anxious and stressed (out of ordinary stress) is a muṣībah – it is a calamity, whether others perceive it as such or not.…
Sufficient for us is Allāh, and most excellent is He in Whom we trust. Perhaps Allāh is testing to see NOT how great a patience you can observe, but how great a trust you can place in Him. Especially if Allāh has rectified your Dīn and much of your Dunyā. He subḥānah might leave a gap in your affairs, so to speak. An unrectified gap. And that gap needs to be filled by you with tawakul (complete and total trust…