the Protector, the Guardian, and the Forgiver.
Whoever prevents his own self and another's self from bearing what God blames with respect to it has protected, preserved, guarded, and veiled it from such things arising within it. He purifies it through teaching it what ought to be known, so that through faith's light and life he may drive away ignorance's darkness and death. This will be within his balance on the Day of Resurrection and among the lights moving before him. He is beloved with God, singled out for solicitude, divine friendship, and appointment as vicegerent.
Governors who are vicegerents belong to those brought near, from among those over whom God appointed them, for they are the intended locus of the One who appointed them, rather than others. Every human being governs his limbs and whatever is beyond that. God has made known to him the purification through which he purifies those in his care.
(Patience and Complaint to God)
Among this is His love for the patient, in His saying, “God loves the patient” [Al ʿImran 3:146]. They are those God tried who restrained themselves from complaining to other than God, who sent this trial upon them. “They did not lose heart through what befell them in God's way, nor did they weaken” [Al ʿImran 3:146] in bearing it, since they bore it through God, although it was hard for them. It must be so: if it were not hard, it would not be a trial. “Nor did they abase themselves” to other than God for its removal. They sought refuge with God for its removal.
They said as the righteous servant said, “Harm has touched me, and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful” [al-Anbiyaʾ 21:83]. He raised his complaint to Him, not to another. God praised him, saying He found him patient: “An excellent servant;
