Trial and Tribulation in Islam

This world is the arena of striving, struggle, exertion, and making effort and the Hereafter is the place of reward and punishment; where the believer who have been righteous and a doer of good will be rewarded with Paradise, while the disbeliever, the polytheist and the practitioner of evil will be punished with Hell Fire. Paradise is a good abode and none but those who are good will enter it for Allah is good and He accepts nothing but that which is good. Thus the method and the tradition of Allah with regard to His slaves is to test them with trials, tribulations, calamities, adversities, comfort, abundance, good health, wealth, the good and the evil; so that the believers will be known from the unbelievers and the hypocrites, the sincere from the insincere, and the patient from the impatient and so that the truthful will be distinguished from the liar. The believers and doers of good are aided by Allah to acquire beneficial virtues through trial and tribulation which will aid them to be nearer and closer to Allah, as well as help them to be successful in this life. Some of those virtues and good character traits are; devotion to Allah, supplication to Allah, seeking for Allah's forgiveness, patient, humility, the doing of good to themselves and to other people. In the contrast the criminals and hypocrites are only harden by trials and tribulations for they will become more arrogant, more disobedient to their Lord and more unthankful to Him. Thus, tests, trials and tribulations and test with good and evil are general for all human beings; they are for the believers and the non believers; they are for the doers of good and the doers of evil. It is part of the general test of that Allah has given man choice and free will to choose between good and evil; He gave man the right to choose the best things without being forced or the wrong things; the straight path or the crocked way.