—Remote for the sluggard or the jaded … yet for the one who yearns, it is near. (1)

By Allah, it is nothing but a sparkling light, yet you are its darkness; a full moon that has illumined East and West, yet you are the cloud and gloom that conceal it; a sweet, limpid spring, yet you are its muddiness. (2) It is a beginning whose conclusion is momentous, (3) yet you have no knowledge of that conclusion.

So listen now to the nature of this migration and to the proofs that point toward it, and call your own soul to account (4) before Allah: are you among those who migrate for it, or those who migrate to it?

The definition of this migration is the journey of the mind: in every question of faith, in every trial that befalls the hearts (5), and in every incident that concerns rulings, toward the mine of guidance and the fountain of light received from the lips of the Truthful, the Confirmed—he who does not speak from desire: “It is nothing but a revelation sent down (4)” (6). Hence, every issue upon which the sun of his Message has risen—accept it; otherwise, cast it into the seas of darkness (8), and every witness