Al-Baqarah 2:156

<h2>The Believer is Patient with the Affliction and thus gains a Reward</h2><p>Allah informs us that He tests and tries His servants, just as He said in another Ayah:</p><p>وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ حَتَّى نَعْلَمَ الْمُجَـهِدِينَ مِنكُمْ وَالصَّـبِرِينَ وَنَبْلُوَ أَخْبَـرَكُمْ</p><p>(And surely, We shall try you till We test those who strive hard (for the cause of Allah) and As-Sabirin (the patient), and We shall test your facts (i.e., the one who is a liar, and the one who is truthful).) (47:31)</p><p>Hence, He tests them with the bounty sometimes and sometimes with the afflictions of fear and hunger. Allah said in another Ayah:</p><p>فَأَذَاقَهَا اللَّهُ لِبَاسَ الْجُوعِ وَالْخَوْفِ</p><p>(So Allah made it taste extreme of hunger (famine) and fear.) (16:112)</p><p>The frightened and the hungry persons show the effects of the affliction outwardly and this is why Allah has used here the word `Libas' (cover or clothes) of fear and hunger. In the Ayat above, Allah used the words:</p><p>بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ الْخَوفْ وَالْجُوعِ</p><p>(with something of fear, hunger,) meaning, a little of each. Then (Allah said),</p><p>وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ الاٌّمَوَالِ</p><p>(loss of wealth,) meaning, some of the wealth will be destroyed,</p><p>وَالاٌّنفُسِ</p><p>(lives) meaning, losing friends, relatives and loved ones to death,</p><p>وَالثَّمَرَتِ</p><p>(and fruits,) meaning, the gardens and the farms will not produce the usual or expected …

Who say, when a misfortune striketh them: Lo! we are Allah's and lo! unto Him we are returning.

Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":-

Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return."

Those who, when a calamity afflicts them, say, “To God we belong, and to Him we will return.”