abeer

“From the greatest means for the constraint of the heart is: Turning away from Allāh and attaching the heart to other than Him. Being negligent of His remembrance, and loving other than Him, since whoever loved something other than Allāh then he is punished with that thing. His heart is imprisoned in loving that other thing. So there is none in this world who is more wretched than him, & none more in a gloomier situation, nor a more miserable survival, nor any one with a more tired/sick heart.”

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْهَمِّ وَالْحُزْنِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْكَسَلِ وَالْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَضَلَعِ الدَّيْنِ وَغَلَبَةِ الرِّجَالِ

“When a person does not have enough good deeds to reach a certain level in Jannah, but Allah wants him to attain that level, then Allah tests him and puts him through difficult trials so that Allah may make him reach that level (in Jannah).”

[Sahih Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 2908]

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله:

“Lofty ranks cannot be reached except with trials.”