How does a servant know whether what Allah has decreed for him is a punishment or a trial and test?

Question:
How does a servant know whether what Allah has decreed for him is a punishment, or a trial and test from Allah?

Answer:
He looks at himself, he looks at himself and evaluates himself. If he has sins and evil deeds, then it is a punishment and a warning from Allah to him to hasten to repent. And if he has no sin, but no one is without sin, ever, except what Allah wills.
If it is decreed that he has no sin, then it is either an elevation of his ranks. A person may be written a rank in Paradise that he does not reach through his deeds, so Allah tests him with calamities in order to raise his ranks with Him. Allah is Wise and Knowing; He does not waste anything for a servant, nor does He take revenge, meaning He decrees things to harm the person. Rather, He decrees them for the benefit of the believer; it is always and forever for the benefit of the believer. As for the hypocrite and the disbeliever, Allah decrees them as a punishment, a punishment upon them. For this reason, He said, "And Allah will purify those who believe..." When the Battle of Badr occurred and the Battle of Uhud occurred, what happened to the Muslims in them happened. Allah said: This is wisdom from Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. So for the believer, the calamity is purification, and for the disbeliever, it is a punishment of annihilation. This is without doubt. So the Muslim evaluates himself and knows that nothing befalls him except by the cause of . Yes.