[3:186] You shall surely be tried in your property; and in your selves, and you shall bear from those who were given the Scripture before you, and from those who are idolaters, much hurt, but if you are patient, and fear - surely that is true resolve.
He spared them the greater part of the occasions of harm in alerting them to their coming before the attacks. He taught them that the better of the two affairs for them was to prefer patience and to choose to be calm under the streams of the decrees.