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Tawrat, Job 42:1-6

Then Job replied to the Lord: “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

At the end of his excruciating experience of being tested by Iblis, and his difficult conversations with Al-Mutaqabbir (The Supreme), Ayyub is able to say: “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” What an amazing testimony. This is what Paul, a rasul (apostle) of Isa al-Masih (may his peace be with us) wrote about:

Injil, Romans 8:28

We know that Allah makes all matters happen for good for those who love him. He called them to him according to his arrangement.

In other words: “all things God works for the good of those who love him.” This is a great consolation. Not every injustice will be put right straight away, not even before we die. We know that and we often hear it emphasized that we need to accept whatever qadar (fate) was determined for us. Yes, we cannot change our qadar, so it is wise to make peace with it. This does not mean, though, that we are to passively resign to injustice having an upper hand or even that we are to view injustice as a divine appointment. It is greatly encouraging to know that even in hardship we can cling to a promise from Allah that, for those who love him, all things work for the ultimate good. It is a special grace of Allah when, sometimes, justice is restored already during our lifetime. This was, Al-hamdulillah, also the case at the end of Ayyub’s great suffering.

Tawrat, Job 42:7-17

After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

Would anger, revenge, and cursing have helped Ayyub in his terrible suffering?

Would Ayyub’s fortunes be restored if he refused to do duah on behalf of his friends, who so greatly added to his pain and misery?

Do I trust Allah that in all my misfortunes that He is “working for my good“? Does it make a difference for me to know this? Under what condition is this true ? (see Injil, Romans 8:28)