under His saying, exalted is He: ﴿In that﴾—pointing to His saying, ﴿Every day He is upon an affair﴾ [al-Raḥmān 55:29], along with other things—‘is a reminder’ ﴿for one who has a heart[62]﴾ [Qāf 50:37]: that is, one possessing discernment through changing among states, or through states changing upon him.
From this he knows the Real's affairs and the realities of the days within which the Real is upon an affair.
The affair is one in entity, while the recipients are many and different. This affair takes diverse forms within them according to their diversity and differences. From God it is one, while within the world's forms it is many, like one form within many mirrors, or many shadows of one person through multiple lamps. Such is the affair.
﴿Or gives ear﴾ [Qāf 50:37] to what is recited to him of His saying, ﴿Every day He is upon an affair﴾ [al-Raḥmān 55:29], and its like, ﴿while witnessing﴾ [Qāf 50:37] within himself the changing of his states. He thus possesses insight into this from God.
These are God's days of which the servant should be reminded, along with their like among God's days: the days of blessings and the days of vengeance in which God seized past generations.
(Blessing, Trial, and the Obligation of Gratitude and Patience)
Know that trials are more numerous than blessings in this world. No blessing God bestows upon His servants is free of trial: God requires him to fulfill its right by thanking Him for it, attributing it to the One who deserves that attribution through bringing it into existence, and employing it in the place where the Real has commanded him to employ it.
For one whose witnessing within blessings is this
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(The previous copy read ‘la-ʿibra’ [a lesson]; this was corrected to ‘la-dhikrā’ [a reminder] by comparison with the new edition, vol. 10, p. 118.)
