Being an Arab myself, I used to say” Ya sabr Ayoub!” a lot these days to recall how patient prophet Job or Ayoub was. We usually refer to Prophet Ayoub when we mention patience. I was wondering why prophet Ayoub specifically. I believe all prophets had been through countless calamities and misfortunes, but why we tend to mention prophet Ayoub when it comes to patience and staying patient during a tough time.
I think that it's not only that prophet Ayoub bore being sick for 18 whole years, but his test was much more challenging than that. He was tested by having all his blessings taken away from him.
That's way harder on someone’s self than being sunken deep in poverty and illness from the very
beginning. As humans, we tend to behave better when we are deprived; we tend to
give when we lack, we tend to help when we need help.
However, if we are in a prestigious position or in authority or famous, it's hard to imagine these things being taken away from us. It's hard for someone who used to be wealthy, healthy, or famous to see others abandoning him because he lost what attracted people to him in the first place.
IMHO, I believe that’s why prophet Ayoub was a symbol of patience. Because staying patient during adversity is more common as we seem like we have no choice…
but staying patient and grateful while losing everything is real Sabr ”patience.”
Prophet Ayoub showed manners and used a very eloquent and humble decorum while complaining to God about what had befallen him. He said,” I was touched with hardship and torment,”.
After 18 years of illness and poverty, and he used the word
”touch,”!
This is exactly what calamities do to our souls. They humble us, they make us vulnerable; they
make us weak; they make us in need of help.
It's unlikely for someone who never experienced actual pain to feel others’ pain. It's hard for someone who never needed help to think that someone else is needing help.
Maybe that's why God chose people coming from real-life challenges and appointed them to deliver his message. Simply, they had been
there…
Our attitudes toward a calamity like COVID interpret how we saw our misfortunes. What we plan to do reflects what we learned deeply. Let's make sure we learned from this adversity a thing or two.
Let’s make sure to stay humble, and be humble and have beautiful patience. The kind of patience we have that it surely humbles us, and stops us from complaining but to God, as well as it reminds us of God’s graces before His tests. Exactly like the patience of Prophet Ayoub.
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