Ayyūb عليه السلام · long illness
Affliction has touched me
- Source
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Sūrat Al-Anbiyaa
21:83 - Extent
- Excerpt within the āyah, shown in full ink against dimmed framing.
- Text
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وَأَيُّوبَ إِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَسَّنِىَ ٱلضُّرُّ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ
ʾannī massaniya aḍ-ḍurru wa-ʾanta ʾarḥamu ar-rāḥimīna
When and why it was said
In the Qur’an (21:83), Ayyub mentions his hardship and appeals to Allah’s mercy.
Qurʾān 21:83
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
And mention Job Ayyūba is substituted by the following idh nādā rabbahu … when he called out to his Lord — after he had been afflicted with the loss of all of his possessions and children the laceration of his body his being shunned by all except his wife for a period of thirteen seventeen or eighteen years as well as the affliction of enduring a straitened means of livelihood — ‘Indeed read annī because of the implicit yā’ of the first person pronoun harm adversity has befallen me and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful’.
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com
Reflection
When tested, speak to Allah with humility and hope.