QASAS-UN-NABIYEEN VOLUME 4. STORY OF AYUB, PEACE BE UPON HIM, CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER THREE

مِحنة و مِنحة

ORDEAL AND REWARD

VOCABULARY

Reward, grant	منحة	ordeal	محنة
acceptable	مُستجاب	Elevation of status	رفع درجات
Difficulty, adversity	بُؤس	Became apparent	تَجَلى
Multiple times	أضعافاً مُضاعفة	refuge	ملجاء
harm	ضُر	It has touched me	مَسَنِىَ
We removed	كَشَفنا	We responded to him	اِستَجَبنا له

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

And when what Allah had intended from Ayub’s trial, its completion and the resultant elevation of status due to Ayub’s,( peace be upon him) contentment with His decree had come to an end, He taught Ayub, peace be upon him, a supplication that is acceptable. This was a supplication that reflected Ayub’s helplessness and the adversity that he was experiencing. And indeed there is refuge from Allah except towards Him, and no doubt He is capable to do everything. Allah provided relief to him in his bodily illness and family. He not only returned to him his wealth, and blessed it, but also increased it manifold.

Allah says:

And Job, when he cried unto his Lord, (saying): Lo! adversity afflicteth me, and Thou art Most Merciful of all who show mercy.

Then We heard his prayer and removed that adversity from which he suffered, and We gave him his household (that he had lost) and the like thereof along with them, a mercy from Our store, and a remembrance for the worshippers;