When Muslims were forced to leave their hearths and homes and emigrate from Mecca to Medina, the polytheists and pagans confiscated their houses and properties.

      In their destination too, which was Medina, they were confronted with the hostility of hypocrites, and abuses and insults of the Jews, especially one of their chief and influentials named KAAB-IBN-ASHRAF, who was a scurrilous, abusive, and vindictive poet, who frequently lampooned the prophet and his companions in his poems. He even made Muslim girls and women the subject and theme of his sexual poetries, and sometimes so much shamelessly that the Messenger of God condemned him to death. So this verse was sent down to encourage the Muslims not to be tired of resistance and patience, and to persevere in spite of all that counter influences and oppositions:

      ``You shall certainly be tested in your possession, and also in your personal self, and shall hear from the people of the Book and from the polytheists much hurt and abuses; but do not lose your patience and persistence.

      The concurrence of patience and piety here, may refer to some people that in spite of their patience, they open their mouth to complain and show thanklessness, but the true believers always endure painful events patiently and with consent.