Tadhkirah — Page 114
114 purified you. And you will receive My help. Hearken! it is the army of Allah which always prevails. Allah is not such as to chastise them while you are among them or while they seek forgiveness. [Arabic] I am your inevitable support. I am the One Who brings you to life. I have breathed into you the spirit of righteousness and have poured love upon you from Myself so that you might be treated well in My presence. So you are like a seed that sends forth its sprout then it grows stronger until it stands firmly on its stem. In these revelations, God has indicated such support and bounty and pointed to such rise in dignity and honour and greatness as would gradually reach its perfection. [Arabic] We have granted you, that is, will grant, a clear victory. Some intervening disagreeable events and hardships will be encountered so that Allah the Almighty may forgive your shortcomings, past and future. This revelation means that God—being All-Powerful— could have, if He willed, caused the purpose in view to be accomplished without any type of tribulation and to cause a great victory to be achieved quite easily. But the tribulations are for the purposes of raising rank and of forgiveness of defaults….