We test you with EVIL and GOOD. Most fear hardship's test; few notice ease's test. Both are fitnah. The blessings you handle wrong wrote the book just as much as the burdens.

Imām al-Shāfiʿī said: I have not been tested by anything as severely as I have been tested by ease, for ease is when the nafs sleeps and the sins rise unnoticed. The Companions feared ease more than hardship. When the conquests came and wealth flowed into Madīnah, ʿUmar wept and said: I fear we have been given our reward in this world. Read his fear. The wealth that the rest of us would celebrate, he saw as the dangerous trial it actually was. The verse 21:35 names this exact danger. The Day will not just audit how you survived your hardships; it will audit how you spent your ease. The tests of ease are the harder tests precisely because they do not feel like tests; they feel like rewards. The believer treats both as fitnah, asks Allah's help in both, and remembers that the book is being written by both columns. Death is the gate; the fitnah is the writing. Both will be presented when you arrive. Yā Allāh, do not let our ease become our undoing; do not let our hardship break our backs. Help us pass both tests as the prophets passed them. When we taste death, let our trial-record be more good than evil, written by Your guidance through both columns of fitnah. Āmīn.