[3:118] O you who believe, do not take as intimates anyone apart from yourselves; such men spare nothing to ruin you; they would love for you to suffer. Hatred is revealed by their mouths; and what their breasts conceal is yet greater. Now We have made clear to you the signs; if you understand.
To trust in the adversary, after the difficulties have been made clear, is to undermine the situation in a place where the deception of the enemy cannot reach. The Real (s) advised the Muslims to be wary of the opposition, to declare themselves free of anyone other than Him, and to continually persist in their devotion to the Real (s) in the heart and innermost self. He stated that the opponents to the Messenger (ṣ) among the people were not unexpected to them from the beginning. How could it not be when he (ṣ) was the locus of acceptance and they were the locus of opposition? How can night be combined with day?