O you who believe, be patient, for God, and vie in patience, with God, and be steadfast, in God, that is, be patient at the station of the soul by struggling, and vie in patience at the station of the heart with the assaults of the self-disclosures of the attributes of Majesty through the unveiling, and be steadfast in your essences at the station of the spirit through the witnessing so that you might not be overcome by any langour or neglectfulness or absence because of any variegations; and fear God, at the station of patience, guarding against contravening [Him], or making a show [of your deeds], and at the vying in patience [by guarding] against becoming resistant and self-satisfied, and when being steadfast [by guarding] against [your spiritually untransformed] remnants and [against] becoming crude, so that you might prosper with real timeless prosperity, [a prosperity] beyond which there is no other prosperity, God willing.