They deem it to be a favour to you that they have submitted…Namely, that they affirmed as true that to which you were summoning them. (Say) ‘…Rather it is God who has done you a favour in that He has guided you to faith, if you are being truthful,’that is, if you are aware that it is God who blessed you with guidance from the beginning.Sahl said:I practised scrupulous piety (waraʿ) for forty years and it happened that [my] attention was turned from me ⸢towards Him⸣ and He corrected me with His words: They deem it to be a favour to you that they have submitted. But God Glorified and Exalted is He knows best.His words, Exalted is He: