From the lives of our pious predecessorsIT is reported that Shurayh said, “If I am afflicted with a calamity, I praise Allah for it four times: I praise Him because it wasn't worse than it was, I praise Him when He gives me the patience to bear it, I praise Him for enabling me to say Al-Istirja' (‘To Allah we belong and to him we will return'; see 2:154-156) in hope of a great reward, and I praise Him for not making it a calamity in my religion.” – Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam Al-Nubala`, in his biography of Shurayh Al
