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Conclusion

relating throughout this book, a believer experiences contentment
and hope when he meets hardship, because he knows that all hard-
ship leads to good, and that Allah will create ease and ultimate vic-
tory. He can also hope for great reward and manifold increase in
return in the Hereafter, for all the hardship he had to suffer here on

Earth. For this reason, unbelievers are surprised to see the believers’
response to hardship, their good spirits, fortitude, because they do
not know that believers hope for from their Lord what they cannot.
The School of Yusuf is, in this respect, an “institution” for their
spiritual education, as well as the means to the good and beauty of
the Hereafter. A believer, who enters the School of Yusuf, is glad be-
cause he can have greater hope for the good of Paradise if he suc-

cessfully endures this trial.
As this book related, Muslims consider situations from a view-
point that unbelievers cannot understand, discovering an inner-
truth unbelievers can’t. They are individuals who know the true
meaning of hardship, cruelty and oppression, and live their lives ac-
cordingly. Therefore, it is not possible for one committed to evil to
stop or prevent they who believe in Allah with a pure heart, fear
only Him and love and befriend Him, who sincerely strive for true
friendship, love, tolerance, hope, optimism, solidarity and morality.

The unbelievers must know that, irrespective of what they do, even
if they were to concentrate all their power, supporting one another,
and devise schemes that could rock mountains, ultimately they can-
not harm the believers. Every snare they set, or slander they devise,
and every mocking word cast against the believers, serve only to
bring ever greater reward to them on Earth, as well as the Hereafter
(unless Allah wills otherwise). Allah offers the believers who are

aware of this the following good news:

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