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"From the completion of Allāh's blessings upon His believing servants is that he afflicts them with hardships and tribulations such as would make them turn back to Him and supplicate to Him alone, making their religion sincerely for Him, putting their hope in Him, and their hearts depending upon Him alone. This leads to their having absolute reliance in Him, their tasting the sweetness of faith, and their absolving themselves of shirk. All of these are blessings greater than the blessings of health, security, and luxury for all of these are merely bodily blessings which both the believer and nonbeliever experience.
As for the blessings that are achieved by those who live by tawhīd, they are beyond description, and every believer has a portion of this in accordance to his faith. This is why some of the Salaf said, 'Son of Adam! You have indeed been blessed when in order to fulfill a need you frequently knock on the gate of your Master.' One of the scholars said, 'I have a need for Allāh so I invoke Him and He grants me the delight of knowing Him and the sweetness of discoursing with Him which makes me desire that my need not be swiftly answered for fear that my soul become distracted from this,' because the soul only desires what it wants and when it attains this it turns away.
In some of the Judeo-Christian narrations it is mentioned, 'Son of Adam! Tribulation brings you and I together whereas ease and luxury brings you and your soul together.' There are many narrations carrying this meaning and it is experienced in reality by the believers. Every believer will be able to relate to what we just said, for what we have related is part of the spiritual experience that none can truly understand except for those who have experienced it."
- Ibn Taymiyyah ['Relief from Distress', pg. 148-149]
As for the blessings that are achieved by those who live by tawhīd, they are beyond description, and every believer has a portion of this in accordance to his faith. This is why some of the Salaf said, 'Son of Adam! You have indeed been blessed when in order to fulfill a need you frequently knock on the gate of your Master.' One of the scholars said, 'I have a need for Allāh so I invoke Him and He grants me the delight of knowing Him and the sweetness of discoursing with Him which makes me desire that my need not be swiftly answered for fear that my soul become distracted from this,' because the soul only desires what it wants and when it attains this it turns away.
In some of the Judeo-Christian narrations it is mentioned, 'Son of Adam! Tribulation brings you and I together whereas ease and luxury brings you and your soul together.' There are many narrations carrying this meaning and it is experienced in reality by the believers. Every believer will be able to relate to what we just said, for what we have related is part of the spiritual experience that none can truly understand except for those who have experienced it."
- Ibn Taymiyyah ['Relief from Distress', pg. 148-149]
