THE FIRST EMIGRATION

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.