{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/job02.htm","path":"isl/pro/job02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/job02.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nAnother Story Similar to What Was Mentioned Before\nIt is mentioned by Wahab and Ka`b Al-Ahb\u00e2r and others that are non-muslims\nthat Job the prophet was a roman man and on his forehead it was written\n\"The Patient for Adversities\", and he is Job ben Mus ben Darih ben Esau\nben Isaac ben Abraham (PUT) [please refer to the beginning of this chapter\nand compare the name], and his mother was a descendant of Lot ben Haran\n(PUH) and he lived in Al-Ba\u00fenah, a town in the lands of Shem, and\nhe had there many fortunes of camels, cows, horses, sheeps, and he was\na faithful man that kept refuse in God against the devil and his tricks,\nand he had three men the believed in him with him, a man from Yemen was\ncalled Aleefan (Eliphaz), and two men from his own lands. It is attributed\nto Wahab a long speech that contains the tricks of Satan with Job (PUH)\nwith details, mentioning that he (Satan) tricked Job with his money and\nchildren and his body by a permission of God, and Job increased in his\npraising to God, and that was annoying for Satan, and he nagotiated with\nhis devils about what to do with him and he was never bored nor tired to\ntrick him and make him sin and Job knew all his trials and kept on being\nso cautious for him and his soldiers, and then Satan went to the friends\nof Job and his beloved trying to make them hate Job and keep away from\nhis beliefs until they said to him sorrowful and painful words, and some\nof these talks is known by the answer of Job to them as it is mentioned\nwhen he said to them: thanks be to God for whenever He gave me and for\nwhenever He took from me, naked I got out from the womb of my mother and\nnaked I shall go back to the ground, and naked I shall face God at the\nend, so you should not be happy O man when God gives you and should be\nscared when He takes form you, for God is the Best that can handle you,\nand if He knew any good in you He would take your soul with the other souls\nso you would be rewarded and be a martyr, but He knew that you only have\nsome evil so He avoided you from adversities. That was the talk of Job\nto Satan when he came to him in the shape of someone that wanted to advise\nand blame him for his patience, so then Satan came back to his fellows\nas been humiliated. Satan continued to call people to deny him until they\nall refused him except of his wife Rahmah, so his sincere folks refused\nhim but without refusing his religion and they kept on blaming him and\nmocking at him until he said to them: you are more harder on me than my\nadversity is, then he turned away from them and said: O Lord, for what\nreason I've been created? Wish if I can know that sin I did and the deed\nthat I did that made You turn away from me, if just You made me follow\nmy fathers for death is beloved more by me, was not I as a home for the\nstranger, and a home for the poor, and a father for the wretch, and a carer\nfor the widow? O my Lord am I but a humiliated servant, if I did good then\nYou have the favour and if I did bad then my punishment is in Your hands,\nYou've made me a subject for the adversities..etc. It is a long and a great\nand an amazing pray that he mentioned in it the details of the adversities\nand whatever he faced of consolations and problems, and all of that as\na complaint against God with the presence of his folks with him, so the\nanswer from God was to be to blame him extremely for what he did of complaining\nextremely, and some of the speech of God to him was: and wear your apron\nand stand as an almighty for there is no one that should stand against\nme except of an almighty like me and no one should stand against me unless\nhe who make the barnacles in the mouth of the lion, and the lambs in the\nmouth of the griffons and the bridles in the mouth of the dragons..etc,\nand this last talk is attributed to God. Then He started to count His favours\nfor His servants and His creations, who made His earth, who made His heavens,\nthe seas, the trees, the angels, the human, the djinn, the source of creativity,\nthe details of things, whatever is kept in the chests of men, the languages\nof animals on lands, sea or air, other than animals, the soul, the mind,\nthe hearing, the sightness and so on of such favours that have no end,\nand then the situation of Job was the most dangerous of all, he lost his\nmind and been mute and deaf and blind and did not know what to say. Yes\nhe said, and some of what he said was: wish if earth was torn apart and\nI went inside of it instead of saying something that makes my Lord mad\nat me, until he said: O Lord, You made me like an enemy to You and You\nused to present me with gifts, a word that slipt of my tongue and I will\nnever do it again, and I've put my hand on my mouth and bit on my tongue\nand to the ground I've put my cheek, forgive me for what I've said and\nI will never do something You hate again. Then said God: O Job, I've known\nyou before, and My mercy comes before My anger, and if you've mistaken,\nI've forgave your mistakes and I shall give you back your household and\nyour money and the same as them to be an example for those who will come\nafter you and be an example for people of adversities and those of patience.\nThen God revealed on him His gifts in life and the after-life, and\nthe greatest gift was His satisfaction towards him and the after-life,\nso then the Merciful called him and ordered him to kick the ground with\nhis feet, this is a spring with a cold bath and for drink, and so he did\nand a spring appeared so he got into it and bathed so then God took away\nall what he had of adversities, then he got out and sat, and his wife tried\nto feel him in the bed but she did not find him then she said in a speech\nof a lover and said to him: O servant of God do you know the man of adversities\nthat was here a while ago? He said to her: would you know him if you saw\nhim? She said: yes, how come I wouldn't, so then he smiled and said: I\nam him, so she knew him from his smile and hugged him and she had the great\nhappiness, and thanks be to God. Then we've pointed out that scholars differ\nin the time of his calls for his Lord and the period of his adversities\nand for what reason he said \"Lo! adversity afflicteth me\", and as attributed\nto the prophet (PUH) he said that the prophet Job (PUH) remained in his\nadversity for eighteen years and people around him from close relatives\nto far ones all refused him and kept away from him except for two men from\nhis brothers and his wife Rahmah that never left him. It is mentioned that\nJob (PUH) remained ill for seven years and some months without money or\nchildren or friends excpet of his wife Rahmah that had patience with him\nat the time that he never forgot to praise God and thank Him, so then Satan\nscreamed and gathered all his armies from all around the earth because\nof his anger for Job's patience, so they suggested for him to approach\nJob from the side of his wife Rahmah, so she came to him (Job) with something\nfaulty because of the whispers of the damned so he (Job) said to her: the\nenemy of God came to you and breathed in you and you accepted him, woe\nto you, do you see all of that fortune and children and health that I was\nin before, who gave them to me? She said: God, he said then: for how long?\nShe said: eighty years. The meaning was that he said to her that God tested\nus for seven years and some months so it is not just to enjoy the wealth\nfor eighty years and never be patient for seven years and some months,\nthen he swore that if God made him healthy again he would flog her for\none hundred times and then he banished her from his place and he had no\none to serve him and then he fell prostrating for God and said: Lo! adversity\nafflicteth me, and Thou art Most Merciful of all who show mercy(Al-Anbiy\u00e2':83),\nand that was a reason for his relief and then his wife Rahmah regretted\nand got back to him and said: if he banished me to whom shall I leave him,\nshall I leave him die of fear or get lost and beasts would eat him? So\nthen she got back with sadness and regret but she did not see him so she\nstarted crying for Job, and then she saw a handsome man with fine garments\nso she asked him about Job, so he said to her: what do you want O servant\nof God? She cried then and said: I wanted that man of adversities, the\none that was left alone, I don't know wether he was lost or what did he\ndo, so he said: would you know him if you saw him? She said then: he was\nthe one of the God's creation that is mostly like you if he was well, he\nsaid then: I am Job..etc, and we've been talking a lot and repeated some\nand it is some of what we found.\nThis is the last thing we did like to mention about the conditions\nof the faithful man, the prophet Job, may peace be upon him and on the\nprophet (PUH) and his Household (PUT).\n\u00a0\nNext: Shu`ayb (Jethro) The Prophet (PUH)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Job: Another Story Similar to What Was Mentioned Before","type":"page"}