The Pilgrimage
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[22:11]
And there is, too, among men many a one who worships God on the borderline [of faith]: thus, if good befalls him, he is satisfied with Him; but if a trial assails him, he turns away utterly, losing [thereby both] this world and the life to come: [and] this, indeed, is a loss beyond compare!

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* v.11 : I.e., wavering between belief and disbelief, and not really committed to either.
* Lit., “he turns about on his face” – the “face” (wajh) of man signifying metonymically his whole being.
* Lit., “the [most] obvious loss.”