And know that hearts are in the hand of God, between two of the fingers of the Most Merciful, like a single heart, which He turns as He pleases, and the hearts of kings are in the hand of God. Likewise, He takes them from us if He wills, and is kind to us with them if He wills. They have nothing of the matter, so excuse them and pray for them, and do not fall into them, for they are God’s representatives among His servants. They are from God in a place, so leave His guardians to Him. The Almighty will deal with them as He wills. If He wills, He will pardon them in what they fall short of, and if He wills, He will punish them. He has seen them, and you must listen and obey them. And if he is an Abyssinian slave with crippled limbs, a polytheist Christian man entered some country, and while he was walking, people were rushing from everywhere and saying: This sultan had come, and the polytheist stopped to see him, and he was black. He was owned by some people, and he was freed with t