Real comfort
First of all a man (as a baby) needs his parents (they are the ones who
help him and do things for him) then he needs (as he grow up) the Kings
and the rulers. When he advances and begins to admit that he has been committing
blunders, and that the people whom he took to be his helpers and friends,
were really so weak that it was a mistake on his part to take them as friends
and helpers - they could not help him fulfill his needs nor were they sufficient
for him, he turns to God and through his steadfastness he finds that God
becomes his friend and helper. This is the time when the man gets a lot
of consolation and a wonderful contentment. More especially when God Himself
says that He is his Friend and Helper, the pleasure of consolation and contentment
in such circumstances is simply unimaginable. This condition of his is free
from all bitterness. The forest of this world is full of thorny bush and
bitterness and worldly affairs are never free from them.
(A poet has said); This world is nothing but a trap. The only place
where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God (i.e.,
a secluded place where he may remember God to the fill of his heart).
Those who are befriended by God get rid of the tribulations of the world
and they enter into the real comfort and contentment of this life. God
has promised to them: 'Wa manyat-taqillah yajallahoo makhrajan wa yarzuqho
min haiso la yahatsib (i.e. He who fears God gets rid of the worldly
troubles and God provides him from where he could never imagine.)
(Malfoozat vol. 7, pg. 53)