Trials and Tests

So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers.

And [recall, O Children of Israel], when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh, [who were] afflicting you with the worst torment - killing your sons and keeping your women alive. And in that was a great trial from your Lord.

Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice but then they do not repent nor do they remember?

And had he not been of those who exalt Allah,

He would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are resurrected.

But We threw him onto the open shore while he was ill.

And We caused to grow over him a gourd vine.

And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

We have certainly created man into hardship.