Purified through Afflictions

Ibn al-Qayyim:

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

al-Fawaa`id, p365

Allaah’s Blessings

“We do not know which to be most grateful for

the best of our actions, which He enabled us to do,

or the ugliest of our wrong actions

which He has veiled for us.”

Substitute

"And verily for everything that a slave (of Allah) loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him."

 -Ibn Qayyim (rahimullah