said regarding His, the Exalted, saying: [except when you take a precaution against them in prudence] 1 he said: "You display with them what they display, and you say as they say, so that that becomes a shield for your religions and a safety for your world."
[37] And Socrates, transcended his might, said: "Whoever takes silence as a shield is protected from the arrows of tongues, because the benefit of silence is greater than the benefit of speech, and the harm of speech is greater than the harm of silence, and patience over difficult things represses the enemy."
[38] And the equivalent of that is the saying of the Messiah, transcended his might, to the disciples: "O assembly of disciples, indeed you will not attain what you want except by your leaving of what you desire, and you will not reach what you aspire for except by patience over what you hate."
[39] And our master al-Ayn, transcended his might, said: "O people, upon you is patience, for indeed there is no faith for him who has no patience."