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Angel Jibril (Gabriel) came to Prophet Muhammed (saws) and said: O Messenger of Allah! Allah (SWT) has sent you a gift which He has not given to anyone before.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is that gift? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: It is patience.
But there is a virtue better than patience. Prophet Muhammed (saws)asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: It is contentment.
There is still a virtue better than contentment. Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: It is pleasure of Allah (SWT).
But there is a virtue better than that. Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: It is piety.
Yet there is a virtue better than that. Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: It is devotion.
But there is a virtue better than that. Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: Sure knowledge.
Yet there is a virtue better than that. Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is it? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: The way to attain all of them is to put trust in Allah (SWT).
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked O Jibril (Gabriel)! What is the meaning of putting trust in Allah (SWT)? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: Knowing that His creatures neither harm nor benefit anyone. They neither give nor withhold anything. One must stop having hope in creatures. When a man reaches this position, he will not do anything save for Him, his heart does not go astray, he fears no one save Him and he does not set his hope on anyone but Him. This is the meaning of putting trust in Allah (SWT).
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: O Jibril (Gabriel)! What is the meaning of patience? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: Man must have forbearance and patience in afflictions as in joys. He should never complain of His Creator to the people.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is the meaning of contentment? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: To be content with whatever in this world and to thank Allah (SWT) for the small things he has.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: what is the meaning of pleasure of Allah (SWT)? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: To be pleased with Allah (SWT) but not to be pleased with one’s own deeds.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: O Jibril (Gabriel)! What is the meaning of piety? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: A pious man loves whatever His creator loves and hates whatever He hates. He is careful about what is lawful and leaves of what is unlawful, for what is lawful is counted and what is unlawful will entail punishment. He has mercy on every Muslim as he has on himself. He shuns useless words as he shuns what is unlawful. He abstains from overeating as he keeps away from a corpse with bad smell. He keeps away from the embellishments of world as he keeps away from Fire. His desires are not far-fetched and death is present before his eyes.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: O Jibril (Gabriel)! What is the meaning of Devotion? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: A devoted person is one who does not ask for anything from people until he obtains it and whenever he obtained it, he is pleased with it. Also if he has something extra, he will give it away for the sake of Allah (SWT). The fact that he does not ask for something from others is admittance of his being a servant of Allah (SWT). He is pleased with Allah (SWT) and Allah (SWT) is pleased with him. He gives away when he needs it more than others.
Prophet Muhammed (saws) asked: What is sure knowledge? Angel Jibril (Gabriel) replied: A man of sure knowledge acts in a way as if he sees Allah (SWT). Even if he does not reach the degree of seeing Allah (SWT), he knows that Allah (SWT) sees him and is sure that what he has and what he has not is what Allah (SWT) wills.
These were some of signs of putting trust in Allah (SWT) and having piety.
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Allah (SWT) had granted immense bounties to ProphetJob / Ayyub (as) such that it has been reported that he possessed five hundred pairs of bulls for ploughing his fields and hundreds of slaves, who used to cultivate his farms. His cargo carrying camels were three thousand in number while his sheep totalled seven thousand.
In addition to this, Allah (SWT) had also granted him good health and numerous children. On his part, Prophet Job / Ayyub (as) perpetually praised and thanked his Lord, and when faced with two acts of obedience, he would always choose the more difficult of the two.
But then, he became the object of Divine trials – not for having committed any sin but rather for raising his rank and status – such that Allah (SWT) took back all the bounties that He had given him and afflicted his body with an incurable disease.
However, despite the severity of the adversity, when Prophet Job / Ayyub (as) ever abandoned thanking, praising and remembering Allah (SWT), the Satan got into the act. He began whispering into his wife’s mind as a result of which she started to complain of the hard times that had befallen them and would moan: “Everyone has deserted us and we do not possess anything.”
Prophet Job / Ayyub (as) said: “For eighty years we had been receiving the bounties of Allah (SWT) and so we should not complain for seven years of hardships but instead continue to remember Him in all circumstances!”
But his wife continued to complain and protest, and persistently placed before him irrational ideas till eventually, enraged, he hollered: “Go away from me such that I do not set my eyes upon you ever again.”
When his wife had left him, Prophet Job / Ayyub (as) found himself alone and without a caretaker; going into prostration, he began praying to his Lord and communicating with Him. On this occasion Allah (SWT) answered the prayers of His servant, who had continued to praise and thank Him, and once again granted him all the bounties!
Meanwhile his wife thought to herself: “Though he has driven me away, it is inappropriate for me to leave him alone. He has none to look after him and he may perish out of hunger.” With this in mind she returned to the place where she had left him but found him missing, while in his place, sat a youth. As she began to weep, the youth asked her: “Why do you weep?” She replied: I had left my old husband here but I do not see him anymore. The youth said: “If you were to see him, would you recognize him?” She said: “Yes.”
Having answered him, she then looked at him hard and realised that he possessed a great resemblance to her husband. The youth then said to her: “I am the same Ayyub.” (Anecdotes for Reflection, Vol 3, Dhikr)

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