from certainty’s ruling as defined in the terminology of God’s people.
For us, certainty exists within every one of God’s creatures. The difference lies only in what certainty attaches to. Certainty is an all-embracing attribute, not particular to God’s path that contains felicity, except through a particular object of certainty. This is its realization. God grants success; there is no Lord other than Him.
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four: On Knowing the Station of Patience, Its Details, and Its Secrets
The draught of patience varies in every drinking place,
with ʿan, ʿalā, or fī, and with bāʾ and lām.
Patience is only in the face of harm,
actual or supposed, through kinds of pains.
Harm is assigned to the Real, the Patient, as brought
in the firmly established verses of the Book to make it known.
There is no patience amid blessings, if you know
the saying of an Imam truthful in judgment and knowing.
Know—may God grant you success—that God the Exalted says, “Those who harm God and His Messenger” [al-Ahzab 33:57]. He thus reports
