And surely your Lord is bountiful to mankind…He said:His withholding (manʿ) is a bounty (faḍl), just as His giving (ʿaṭāʾ) is a bounty, but it is only the elite among the friends [of God] (awliyāʾ) who know the situations in which deprivation is a bounty.His words, Exalted is He: