[3:173] Those to whom people said, 'The people have gathered against you, therefore fear them'; but that increased them in faith, and they said, 'God is sufficient for us, an excellent Guardian is He'.
Nothing of the circumstances of the present world confused them in their outward forms (zawāhir) without opening up for them the gleams of the rising of unveilings in their innermost selves (asrār), and they increased in certainty upon certainty. Among the signs of certainty is the independence of hearts in God upon the severance of desires from creatures in imagining aid and support.