Quran on Suffering

Relent not in pursuit of the enemy. If ye are suffering, lo! they suffer even as ye suffer and ye hope from Allah that for which they cannot hope. Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

He said: I expose my distress and anguish only unto Allah, and I know from Allah that which ye know not.

And make mention (O Muhammad) of Our bondman Job, when he cried unto his Lord (saying): Lo! the devil doth afflict me with distress and torment.

Outcast, and theirs is a perpetual torment;

Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell's torment.

Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.

O my people! This is the camel of Allah, a token unto you, so suffer her to feed in Allah's earth, and touch her not with harm lest a near torment seize you.

Lo! We have appointed it a torment for wrong-doers.

Surely that day will be a day of anguish,

And saved them and their people from the great distress,

Then pour upon his head the torment of boiling water.

And lo! it is indeed an anguish for the disbelievers.

And We saved him and his household from the great distress,

And other (torment) of the kind in pairs (the two extremes)!

That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment.

Lo! We withdraw the torment a little. Lo! ye return (to disbelief).

But when We eased them of the torment, behold! they broke their word.

Our Lord! Oh, give them double torment and curse them with a mighty curse.

Then we heard his prayer and saved him from the anguish. Thus we save believers.

(Then they will say): Our Lord relieve us of the torment. Lo! we are believers.

Say: Allah delivereth you from this and from all affliction. Yet ye attribute partners unto Him.

Nay, but We shall record that which he saith and prolong for him a span of torment.

And grieve thou not for them, nor be in distress because of what they plot (against thee).

So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.

But as for those who deny Our revelations, torment will afflict them for that they used to disobey.

That (is the award), so taste it, and (know) that for disbelievers is the torment of the Fire.

And who say: Our Lord! Avert from us the doom of hell; lo! the doom thereof is anguish;

Ah, the anguish for the bondmen! Never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him!

But Allah hath been gracious unto us and hath preserved us from the torment of the breath of Fire.

He saith: Enter into the Fire among nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before you. Every time a nation entereth, it curseth its sister (nation) till, when they have all been made to follow one another thither, the last of them saith unto the first of them: Our Lord! These led us astray, so give them double torment of the Fire. He saith: For each one there is double (torment), but ye know not.

And whoso defendeth himself after he hath suffered wrong - for such, there is no way (of blame) against them.

(And it will be said unto them): Taste your torment (which ye inflicted). This is what ye sought to hasten.

And Noah, when he cried of old, We heard his prayer and saved him and his household from the great affliction.

And their Lord hath heard them (and He saith): Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. Ye proceed one from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain, verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow - A reward from Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards.

And how many a township did I suffer long though it was sinful! Then I grasped it. Unto Me is the return.

Do men imagine that they will be left (at ease) because they say, We believe, and will not be tested with affliction?

Happy because of what their Lord hath given them, and (because) their Lord hath warded off from them the torment of hell-fire.

Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement, that thou (Muhammad) wilt torment thy soul with grief over their footsteps.

That We may test them thereby, and whoso turneth away from the remembrance of his Lord; He will thrust him into ever-growing torment.

And those in the Fire say unto the guards of hell: Entreat your Lord that He relieve us of a day of the torment.

Then will it be said unto those who dealt unjustly Taste the torment of eternity. Are ye requited aught save what ye used to earn?

On the likeness of those (who suffered) a short time before them, they taste the ill-effects of their own conduct, and theirs is painful punishment.

If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were afflicted. But if ye endure patiently, verily it is better for the patient.

Lo! as for those who believe and do good works - Lo! We suffer not the reward of one whose work is goodly to be lost.

And warn them of the Day of anguish when the case hath been decided. Now they are in a state of carelessness, and they believe not.

Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning.

And every token that We showed them was greater than its sister (token), and We grasped them with the torment, that haply they might turn again.

For them is torment in the life of the world, and verily the doom of the Hereafter is more painful, and they have no defender from Allah.

And verily there had come unto them a messenger from among them, but they had denied him, and so the torment seized them while they were wrong-doers.

Hath he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter are in torment and far error.

Those are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, and torment at the price of pardon. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire!

Allah promiseth the hypocrites, both men and women, and the disbelievers fire of hell for their abode. It will suffice them. Allah curseth them, and theirs is lasting torment.

Endure thou patiently (O Muhammad). Thine endurance is only by (the help of) Allah. Grieve not for them, and be not in distress because of that which they devise.

Then changed We the evil plight for good till they grew affluent and said: Tribulation and distress did touch our fathers. Then We seized them unawares, when they perceived not.

And (remember) when We did deliver you from Pharaoh's folk, who were afflicting you with dreadful torment, slaying your sons and sparing your women: that was a tremendous trial from your Lord.

And (remember) when We did deliver you from Pharaoh's folk who were afflicting you with dreadful torment, slaughtering your sons and sparing your women. That was a tremendous trial from your Lord.

And Pharaoh said: Suffer me to kill Moses, and let him cry unto his Lord. Lo! I fear that he will alter your religion or that he will cause confusion in the land.

Such will not escape in the earth, nor have they any protecting friends beside Allah. For them the torment will be double. They could not bear to hear, and they used not to see.

That (is so). And whoso hath retaliated with the like of that which he was made to suffer and then hath (again) been wronged, Allah will succour him. Lo! Allah verily is Mild, Forgiving.

Thus they will give you the lie regarding what ye say, then ye can neither avert (the doom) nor obtain help. And whoso among you doeth wrong, We shall make him taste great torment.