The Moral Vision
The First Emigration
~ 276 ~
Emigration is indeed a great test of patience. It is
those who pass this test who will receive the reward
of God. As the Prophet said: “You should know that
succour comes with patience; there is ease with
hardship.”
Patience, then, is the ladder by which one ascends
to the Lord’s favour and succour. It is with patience
that we should react to the difficulties of life, for it is
on the field of human patience that divine succour
descends. Our ability to face hardship with patience
is a great portent, for it means that we are leaving
our cause to God. That is a signal for the swift
ending of our plight, and the conversion of our
hardship into ease.
Real paradise lies on the other side of the divide of
patience. Any paradise that one finds without
crossing that divide can only be an illusion.
