The Holy Quran 39:49 — Surah Az-Zumar

Arabic text

فَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ ضُرٌّ دَعَانَا ثُمَّ إِذَا خَوَّلْنَـٰهُ نِعْمَةً مِّنَّا قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أُوتِيتُهُۥ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍۭ ۚ بَلْ هِىَ فِتْنَةٌ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

Translation

When any adversity (such as poverty or illness) afflicts man, he supplicates (pleads) to Us (for assistance). Thereafter, when We confer a bounty upon him (by granting him wealth or by restoring his good health), he says, "I have been granted this because of (my) resourcefulness (my ability and wisdom)." Rather (than being a favour to him), it (the bounty We give him) is a test (to examine whether he will thank Allaah), but most of them do not know (and therefore fail the test by attributing the bounty to themselves, thereby succumbing to Shirk).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The double standard of the idolaters in joy and hardship: that is, the One at whose mention he used to be irritated, he calls upon in times of misfortune, and those at whose mention he used to rejoice, he forgets.

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