The Test to Prophet Ayyub (Job) [A.S]

The wealth of Ayyub (A.S) was test from Allah. The life of Prophet Ayyub (A.S) was an example for others to follow. Ayyub (A.S) had great wealth and comforts, but he knew that they were blessings from Allah. He always remembered and thanked Allah.

Allah tested Ayyub (A.S) in a different way. Everything was taken away from him, one after the other, and he suffered different types of diseases. No part of his body was safe or healthy except his heart and tongue, with which he remembered Allah. His sickness continued for many years that the people around him stayed away from him except his loving wife who carried on looking after him.

She remembered his good treatment of her and his compassion for her. Prophet Ayyub (A.S) never lost patience at all. When the sickness had afflicted him for a long time, he said to her, “I have lived for seventy years I a healthy condition, could I not bear al this patiently for the sake of Allah for another seventy years?”

She was impatient with this answer. She served other people for wages to feed Ayyub (A.S), but after sometime, people stopped giving her work because, being Ayyub’s wife, they were afraid that she might pass on his diseases to them.

Ayyub (A.S) wife was not an ordinary woman. She remained by his side through all the hard times. She would hold his hands and talk to him when everyone else stayed away from him. it was extremely painful for Ayyub (A.S) and his wife to go through all of this.