[3:120] If good fortunate befalls you, it is evil for them; but if evil befalls you, they rejoice thereat. Yet if you endure and fear, their guile will not hurt you at all; God encompasses what they do.
The allusion in this verse is to those who abandon the path of spiritual desire (irāda), returning to the states of the people of habit (ahl al-ʿāda). They are not happy to see an aspirant (murīd) have a realization (nafādh); rather they are glad when they see listlessness in a seeker (qāṣid). God in His favor and grace perfects His light for the people of His solicitude and He lets the evildoers stray from His path in the punishment of their distance. He is not concerned with what comes to them.