Know, may God grant you success, that God Almighty says that those who harm God and His Messenger, and he is told that he is harmed, then God Almighty is called patient in the face of harm to His creation. Just as He asked His servants to remove harm while deserving it of the name “patient,” likewise the name “patience” is not removed from a servant if a calamity befalls him, so he asked God Almighty to remove that. The affliction is as Job, peace be upon him, did. He said, “Harm has touched me, and You are the Most Merciful of those who are merciful.” And God praised him and said with this question, “Indeed, we found him patient.” Patience is not withholding oneself from complaining to God to lift or ward off the affliction. Rather, patience is withholding oneself from complaining to other than God and relying on that other, and I have demonstrated it. You know that God asked His servants to remove the harm they caused Him with, despite His ability not to create in them the harm