Sayyiduna Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: Which people are tested the most severely? (Who face the most calamities and hardships?) He replied:“The Prophets, then those who are best after them, then those who are best after them. A person is tested according to the strength of his religion; if he is strong and firm in his religion, his trial is made more severe and intense, and if there is softness and weakness in his heart, then the trial is lessened for him. And a servant continues to be afflicted (with pain, illness, poverty, grief) in this manner until he walks upon the earth and there remains no sin upon him.”