Calamities afflict everyone When we read the Quran we see the word calamity musibah   المصيبة has been repeated ten times and test, bala‘ البلاء has been mentioned 25 times.  Allah Almighty tells us in this hadith that He will afflict His believing servants, and He afflicts His non-believing servants. The tests come in different ways, illness, calamities, loss in business and property, and so on. For example in Surah Ash Shurah, we are told: قال الله تعالى: وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ سورة الشورى30. Whatever misfortune befalls......

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