An-Nisa 100: The one who migrates in the way of Allah will find many places of refuge on earth and abundance. And the one who leaves the house to migrate in the way of Allah and Allah’s Messenger and death overtakes the person, the reward is due from Allah. Allah is Oft-Forgiving (Ghafoor) and Most Merciful (Raheem).

We have come to verse one hundred. Whoever migrates in the way of Allah finds on earth many good places to go and the means of abundance. See how beautiful: whoever migrates in the way of Allah finds on earth many good places and the means of abundance. And whoever leaves his home migrating for Allah and His Messenger, and then death overtakes him, his reward falls upon Allah. And Allah is most forgiving and merciful. These are in the way of Allah. Martyrs, you see. He leaves his home.

If death overtakes him in the way of Allah, even if he does not get there, that is, he set out to take part in battle but could not take part in battle.

Well, or to gather somewhere against the enemy, to fight, to fight in the way of Allah, he set out and died before he could get there. Their case is left to Allah, it says. Our Lord is most forgiving and most merciful.

Whoever migrates in the way of Allah finds on earth many good places to go, the means of abundance. In this verse Allah Almighty addresses people. O people! If you are driven out, or leave, for Allah's sake from the homeland where you were born and raised, your property and possessions, to places more beautiful than where you were born and raised you will come. If love of your birthplace and your property sway you and you stay there, you will have wronged your own selves. But if you hold to Allah's command and migrate in His way, you will attain much of Our mercy, abundance and guidance' – thus He wants to show people the miracles in His verses. The words in this verse.

Whoever leaves his home migrating for Allah and His Messenger, and then death overtakes him, his reward falls upon Allah. Yes. He leaves his place, his home, his property and possessions for Allah. He migrates with his brothers in Islam, or to his brothers in Islam, and if meanwhile the person dies before reaching the town he set out for, Allah, by reason of his intention, of his brothers who migrated, who fulfilled Allah's command and successfully arrived, grants the (?), the very same reward to this person too. Allah rewards such people from Himself with rewards beyond our imagination, honours them, honours them and provides them with means.

Allah Almighty is most forgiving and most merciful. Allah does not wish injustice on His servants. Those who endure hardships for His sake – to reward them in His presence – these worlds He created He does not deem worthy of people; these worlds He created He does not deem worthy of people; Allah, these worlds He created to reward them in His presence, does not deem worthy of people – Allah – in return for people suffering hardship for Allah in the material world, by giving them the hereafter, the true world, He wants people to break free of the material world, and man, whom He so loves, to Himself to turn back.

Allah Almighty, for one person, well, the worth of one person is (?) the world, it says, that much; man is precious. If Allah Almighty outwardly created these worlds for people, it is not because He deemed man worthy of this world. So that man would prove what kind of person he is – to Allah, to those around, to himself – He sent him to the world for a short while, to benefit from the earth. Yes. That man's love be not for possessions but for Him, He wills. And so, for people to be worthy of this love of Allah Almighty, to Allah Almighty's verses, to the verses, holding fast wholeheartedly, when they migrate for Allah, if before reaching the place they migrate to they die, Allah Almighty grants them great rewards.

Yes. Yes.

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of the verse we read. So, with these feelings, man leaves what Allah has created for Allah's sake, submits to Allah's command, and from the oppression of Allah's enemies against him, without compromising on Allah's way, keeping Allah's commands, when they migrate in the way of Allah, such people find on earth many good places to go and abundance. Moreover, as well as building up their hereafter, of the rewards to be given to them by Allah Himself they become partakers too. O man! Deceived by the passing benefit of the transient worlds – Allah's way without compromise, for Allah, for what Allah has promised and for the bliss of eternal life, do not leave the way of Allah and His Messenger, so that in your eternal life you may attain Allah's mercy.

According to one narration, when the verses about hijra were being revealed, in Mecca the Honoured lived a very old and frail man, Jundub ibn Damra; this respected man, on hearing these verses, said: 'By Allah, I am no longer a weak person. I will not stay in this city even one night,' and he says: 'Send me off from this town.' He has his belongings packed and joins a caravan going to Medina the Radiant. Because he was old and frail, when the signs of death came upon him, he placed his right hand on his left hand and said: 'O Allah, this is for You and this is for Your Messenger. For whatever Your Messenger worshipped You, I likewise pledge allegiance,' he says.

Continuing on the road, at a place called Tan'im, when the divine decree came to pass, he died.

When the Companions heard of this event, they said: 'That man, had he reached Medina, would have had a greater reward.' Upon this the polytheists mocked and laughed. 'He did not get what he wanted,' they say. This verse was revealed because of that, they say.

In fact all the plans were prepared beforehand, and these events, for the verses to become manifest, are parts played out episode by episode. Yes.