Tested

We will surely test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives, and crops. But give glad tidings to those who endure

Those who, when afflicted, say, ‘We belong to Allah, and to Him we shall return.’

Upon them are blessings and mercy from their Lord, and they are the rightly guided.

It was not you who killed them, but Allah. And when you struck, it was not you who struck, but Allah, so that He may grant the believers a great victory.

This is how Allah undermines the schemes of the disbelievers.

Remember when you were on the near side of the valley, and they were on the far side, with the caravan below you. Had you planned for this encounter, you would not have arranged it, but Allah brought it to pass so that a matter already decreed could be fulfilled. So that those who perished would perish with clear proof, and those who lived would live with clear proof.

Allah showed them to you in your dream as few. Had He shown them as many, you would have faltered and disputed in the matter. But Allah saved you, He knows what is within hearts.

And when you met them, He made them appear few in your eyes, and made you appear few in theirs, so that Allah might fulfil His decree. To Allah all matters return.

Had the gain been near and the journey short, they would have followed you, but the distance seemed too far. They will swear, “Had we been able, we would have joined you.” They ruin themselves, for Allah knows they are lying.

O believers, remember God’s favour upon you when enemy forces gathered against you, and We sent against them a wind and unseen forces. God sees all that you do.

When they came upon you from above and below, and your eyes grew wide with fear, and your hearts reached your throats, and you harboured doubts about God.

That was the moment when the believers were tested and shaken to their core.

The hypocrites and those with diseased hearts said, “God and His Messenger promised us nothing but deception.”