Favours of the Gracious God — Page 178
178 exile and they drew up the saddles of their horses of the echoes [of their homeland], after they had been vagrants, ready [to retrace their origins] like friends travelling together. However, they lacked a man who could lead them on this journey and without a guide to accompany them, there was no other way. Thus, I reached out to them and took hold of them as one takes into possession one’s inheritance. And despite the annals of time having proclaimed their demise, I pulled them out of their graves. Thus, after a long time they were able to see their home and meet with their own clan and proceed to their palace after having been imprisoned by many hardships. Their return was like that of a friend who returns after being missing for such a long time, that his friends have even gathered together to mourn his loss and perform his last rites. As such, it was as if I pulled a coffin of the dead, or returned the slave who had run away from [his master’s] home, or brought back into the fold a person of noble birth who had fallen into debauchery, or returned back a relative who had deserted a noble family, or returned the son who was lost having run away from home, or retrieved those children who had drowned. Amongst the words of these languages are those that did not sustain an iota’s worth of damage during the era of their separation,