O spiritual
friends and loved ones of the All-Merciful!
In every Age
believers are many but the tested are few. Render ye praise unto God ye that
are tested believers, that ye have been subjected to every kind of trial and ordeal
in the path of the supreme Lord. In the fire of ordeals, your faces have flushed
aglow like unto pure gold, and amidst the flames of cruelty and oppression which
the wicked had kindled, ye suffered yourselves to be consumed while remaining
all the time patient. Thus ye have initiated every believer into the ways of
steadfastness and fortitude.
