Coping with loss

In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful:

"O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.
And say not of those who are slain in the way of Allah: "They are dead." Nay, they are living, though ye perceive (it) not.
Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere,
Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":-
They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from Allah, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance."
(Translation of Al-Quran by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Al-Baqarah 153-157)


"By the Fig and the Olive,
And the Mount of Sinai,
And this City of security,-

We have indeed created man in the best of moulds,
Then do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low,-

Except such as believe and do righteous deeds: For they shall have a reward unfailing.
Then what can, after this, contradict thee, as to the judgment (to come)?

Is not Allah the wisest of judges?"

(Translation of Al-Quran by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, At-Tin 1-8)