It also indicates that seeking help from Allah and having...

It also indicates that seeking help from Allah and having confidence in Allah together with perseverance and piety are among the factors of the final victory and protection against threats. This means that we must both seek help from Allah and endure ourselves.

The verse says: “Moses said to his people: ‘Seek help from Allah and endure…” Another matter is that, at the sensitive times, a leader must console the community and make them hopeful, because the hope to a clear future is the promise of all religions including Islam. Moreover, the pious people, not only have a good end in this world, but also are victorious in the next world.

“They said: ‘We have been hurt before you came to us and (also) after you came to us.’ He said: ‘Maybe that your Lord will destroy your enemy and will make you successors in the earth, then He observes how you act.”*** The Children of Israel expected all the affairs be promptly corrected in one night after the raise of Moses (as), and the country of Egypt, with all its facilities, could be in their authority, and the Pharaonic people would be annihilated.

That was why they claimed that the raise of Moses (as) did not bring confort for them. The reply of Allah (s.w.t.) is that triumph needs some conditions, such as patience, struggle, and reliance. When these conditions are supplied, there is a hope to the help of Allah. It was thus that the divine leaders were sometimes criticized by some friends who were of little capacity and of little tolerance.

The verse says: “They said: ‘We have been hurt before you came to us and (also) after you came to us.’…” Most of people imagine that happiness and felicity is found in comfort and tranquility. They suppose that the lack of them is as a failure to obtain their desires. They are neglectful that the Divine religions have come to correct the ways of lives, not to efface their difficulties. A leader should hearken to critics and send some hope-giving messages.