The Country of Ayoub The Patient

I was really sick and I had a real bad toothache that made me the couple of days crying day and night till I managed to go to the dentist and there he took off the tooth causing all that pain, after taking off my tooth the dentist stood and he was really tired and told me : "MISS you are really Patient , an orginail citizin from the Ayoub The Patient 's country"

He was right ,I was really patient despite the pain ,I didn't make any silly movement people usually make at the dentist's clinic ,I actted according the Egyptian old common saying "To feel a pain for just one hour ,is better than feeling it every hour"

But who is Ayoub the patient ?

Ayoub The patient 's story orginailly came from Our Holy Book 'The Quarn' The holy Book of Islam ,it is a Quranic story like the Biblic Stories .In The Quran , Ayoub the Patient was a prophet and a good wise old man who God wanted to Test his faith and devotion by making him ill with a severe illness with no cure,that illness continued for years and years with no cure except by Ayoub's Patience and his Faith in God's Mercy.After his long Patience on illness , Ayoub was ordered by God to go to a water source and wash his body in it so that his body would be clean for any disease what so ever .This Quranic story was to show the Muslims that God always Tests humans to see how strong their devotion and faith ,and that the only way to pass these tests are by faith and Patience ...This is the Quranic Part .

here comes the Egyptian part of the tale ,there is a legend in the land of the pyramids saying that Ayoub the patient was an old good wise Egyptian man who lived in Egypt somewhere in Ariesh in Sinai (by the Egyptian-Palestinian borders) and that the water source mentioned is the Mediterranean sea

But as you see ,the Quran didn't mention any thing about the nationality of Ayoub or when he lived from near or far yet there is something more intersting

Everyyear hundreds of Simple Egyptian people across the country come to Ariesh in a speific day (I guess according the old ancient Egyptian calender ) to wash their bodies in the mediterranean for the hope of miracle to cure them from their diseases and illness,the story became a legend

And Ayoub became an example for patience in Egyptian Culture heritage and this is obvouis in the famous quota "Ya sabr Ayoub" 'oh Ayoub's Patience' ,it is said when you see a person who is so patient on his trouble ,or when you wait alot for something or someone

the rest is coming tomorrow with God's will