“Remember Job when he called out to his Lord-Sustainer, ‘Adversity has befallen me! And You are the Most Merciful of the Merciful!’ ” [God, the Magnificent, has spoken truly.]
وَأَيُّوبَ إِذْ نَادَى رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ وَأَنْتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ — صدق الله العظيم
Qur’an, Surat al-Anbiya 21:83. wa-Ayuba idh nada anni massani d-durru wa-anta arhamu r-rahimin. Sadaqallahu l-‘azim. Calligraphy by Yusuf Sezer.
I’ve gotten permission from Dr. Alan Godlas (Abdul Haqq), who is a professor at the University of Georgia for Islamic and Sufi studies, to repost his Facebook postings on Islam and Sufism. All translations are done by Abdul Haqq Godlas unless otherwise noted.