Who will be put to trial??

“Anyone who turns away from the worship, obedience and love of Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى, will be put in to trial with the worship, service and love for the creation.”

Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

When the slave wakes up as the night encloses him, and his only concern is Allaah and how to please and obey Him, then Allaah takes upon Him[self] to fulfill all of his needs and remove from him all that causes him anxiety. Allaah سُبحانه وتعلى also makes his heart free to love Him only, his tongue free to remember Him only, and his body free to serve Him only.

However, when a slave of Allaah wakes up when the night encloses him, and his main concern is the world, Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى will make him bear the burdens of anxiety, grief, and hardship. Allaah will entrust him to his own self and He will make his heart busy, sealing it from His love, since it will be preoccupied with love for creation. Allaah will keep his tongue from remembrance because it will be engaged with His creation; his body will be kept from obedience, since it will be enslaved by its desires and services. And he will toil like a beast of burden toils in the service of another.

Anyone who turns away from the worship, obedience and love of Allaah, will be put into to trial with the worship, service and love for the creation.

Allaah سُبحانه وتعلى  says:

وَمَن يَعْشُ عَن ذِكْرِ الرَّحْمَنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُ شَيْطَانًا فَهُوَ لَهُ قَرِينٌ
“And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful – We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion.”
(Surah al-Zukhruf: 36)

[al-Fawaa’id, pg. 121]