Allah shows us a form of hypocrisy that we should stay away from. Specifically, He says that there are people who go through difficult times, and then Allah gives them a taste of His mercy and immediately after that they conspire against the verses of Allah.

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What you have here is the first chapter of the Quran that is named after a prophet, and it is significant that it is Yunus (pbuh). Why Yunus (Jonah)? Yunus is not just the first prophet to have a Sura named after him, but he's also actually the first prophet that was mentioned to Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) in revelation in Surat Al-Qalam:48 There is a profound lesson in that; Yunus was a prophet who at one point gave up and turned away from his people, and ended up not just at a low point, but physically, at the bottom of the ocean, in the belly of a whale, under the darkness of the night, calling out to Allah swt and not only did Allah save him but Allah elevated him. So he was bett

Exploring the topic of contentment, I searched the Quran for derivatives of the root word (faraha/happy) and found that in the majority of cases, 20 or so instances, it described a negative reaction, such as: When goodness comes to them after harm has touched him, he is sure to say, 'Misfortune has gone away from me.' He becomes happy and boastful. Or: And though they may *revel* in the life of this world, it is but a fleeting comfort compared with the Life to come. وَفَرِحُوا بِالْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا مَتَاعٌ ﴿٢٦ الرعد The two or three examples of the use of faraha in the Quran refer to the believers in Paradise. But the one singl