whom this truthful purifier (1) has declared reliable; otherwise, count him among the people of suspicion and accusation. That, then, is the boundary of this migration.

What, then, of the one who remains settled in the city of his own temperament and habits, dwelling in the very house where he was reared and born (2), proclaiming, “We are walking the path of our fathers, holding fast to their rope, following in their footsteps”? What connection does such a person have to this migration? He has laid the whole matter (3) upon them and has entrusted to them the knowledge of the road to his salvation (4) and success, excusing himself by saying that their judgment is better for him (5) than his own, and that their suppositions and opinions are more trustworthy than his own conjecture and surmise.

If you were to probe the source of this claim, you would find it springing from attachment to the land of idleness, born of the union between the husband, sloth, and his wife, weariness (6).

The point is that this migration is obligatory for every Muslim; it is required by the testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, just as the first migration is required by the testimony that there is no deity but Allah.

Concerning these two migrations, every servant will be asked on the Day of Resurrection and in the Barzakh,