Be grateful for what you have, instead of complaining to Allah.

1. Handling Afflictions & Hardships
 Difficulties and hardships in life are tests. More often
hardships come due to our own acts and provide us with great
learning opportunities. So, whenever you face some trouble,
look for its cause inside you. Learn the law of “cause and
effect”, which stipulates that for every effect, there is always a
cause. If you take away the cause, the effect will automatically
seize. So, when you undo the cause after learning from your
mistakes, the effect (i.e the pain) will automatically cease to
exist.
 Had there been no testing system in schools how could one
know who was a good student and who not? And if you never
knew who was a good student who would you reward. We
cannot even dream of progressing throughout our school
years without tests, then how can we imagine moving ahead
without them? Do you stop going to school fearing tests or
rather prepare hard to get through? Accept the hardships in
life as tests, as challenge.
 If a test is very difficult and beyond your capabilities and you
complain about it being so, would it solve the issue? No, there
is only one person who can make it easier for you and that is
the teacher who has given you the test. Right. If that is right,
just imagine how other people could relieve you from the
hardships and difficulties who themselves going through

2. them like you. If there is someone who can make it easier for
you, it is the Lord, Allah. He is the one who has put you in the
test and He is the one who can relieve you from pains. Don’t
talk about your difficulties and hardships with anyone else
but with someone who can comfort you, i.e. God.
 Can worry be the solution? By simply worrying about
anything, could you really solve it? You see more people die of
worries than work. Don’t just worry in difficult times. Instead,
do something to bail yourself out. If you worry about losing
job, prepare yourself and become the best in your profession.
You’ll notice the moment you are prepared your worry will
cease. The same is true for hardships. When you discover the
cause of your hardships, the next step is to undo it.
Remember, there is always a solution to everything that may
happen. Never lose hope or courage. In difficult times, work
even harder.
 If you suffer from a disease, never pray for your recovery,
instead wish for “betterment”. No one but God knows what is
better for you. What good a life is if it is full of pain and is
causing burden.
 While in pain or disease, never complain. Rather pray for your
self-sufficiency and patience. If you do so, it will be soothing
for you.

3.  Accept disease with patience and gratitude, reflect on your
life and make some fundamental changes in your life. If you
did that, the disease could become a beginning of something
new instead of being an end.
 You may come across many good and pious people who face
hardships and troubles more often than others. Sometimes
people wonder that if they are so pious, why does God put
them in more afflictions than those who are known sinners.
Would you try to correct or punish someone in the street for
some misdeeds? However, if someone close to you carried out
same misdeeds, you would be more concerned to correct
him/her. Right. Remember that those who are pious and thus
close to God are put in more test and trials `than others.
Through this God gives these people an opportunity to
further clean up.
 If there were no hope in this world, the world would have
become stagnant. Look at all the killings, which were going
on in early 20th century. If there were no hope for a better
tomorrow, this world would have come to an end. After a
natural disaster you hope it will not happen again and rebuild
your house. After you see a plane crash, you don’t lose hope
and abandon your plans to fly. You hope that it will not
happen to you and take the next flight. No one could be
certain he/she would be alive tomorrow. Still, you see people
planning for decades in advance for they hope to live that
long. So make sure that you don’t lose hope for a better

4. tomorrow. Keep on struggling hard and a better tomorrow
will come. However, if you have lost hope, you have lost
everything. Research shows that diseases kill those people
more who lose hope than the ones who expect they will
recover.
 What would you say of a person whom you helped in difficult
time and when he came out of it, instead of being grateful to
you he forgot you or even started talking against you? Would
you like to help him the second time? Of course, not. You
would rather help him/her who at least, if nothing else, is
grateful and remembers you. Make sure that you don’t forget
those who help you in difficult times, a man (i.e. source) and
God, who helped you through him. Always be courteous and
thankful to those who help you come out of your difficult
times. They are the only true friends.
Conclusion:-
“Har Haal Mein Shukar Alhumdulillah, No Gilla & Shikwa
from Allah.”