The Seventeen Benefits Of Tribulation

The 17 Benefits of Tribulation are:

01) You realize the power of Lordship over you.

02) You realize your object servanthood and your complete state of resignation and brokenness before the will and power of God.

03) Sincerity to God; one has no place of return in putting off or defending against the calamity except to Him. It makes you sincere because the muhsin is the one who call on God without any shirk. A moment of ikhlas in this world is enough to save a person.

04) He returns to God and suddenly is fervent in his desire of his Lord.

05) It leads to a humbled state before God and it leads to prayers (du’a) that you call on God.

06) You’re forbearing towards the One who has afflicted you.

07) You forgive the one who has wronged you.

08) To be patient during the tribulation.

09) To be happy about what’s happening because of those benefits.

10) To be grateful for it.

11) Purification that these calamities have towards peoples’ wrongs and sins.

12) Compassion that God enables you to show to people who are in tribulation and to help them.

13) Tribulation gives you the blessing of having true knowledge of the extent of well-being.

14) God has prepared rewards for the calamities that you’ve beared patiently or with contentment.

15) What is hidden inside the folds of these calamities are blessings.

16) Tribulations prevent you from arrogance.

17) Contentment. Tribulation afflicts the good and the evil (people), whoever doesn’t like it, it’s on Him, he’s lost the dunya and the akhira. Those who are pleased with it, it’s because he knows it, because paradise is better than anything in this world and if these tribulations are what it takes for him to get to paradise, then he’s content with it.

... The Seventeen Benefits Of Tribulations, Al-`Izz Ibn `Abdus-Salam