Lo there you are you love them but they love you not; you believe in the Book all of it and when they meet you they say “We believe” but when they are alone they bite their fingertips at you in rage. “Your hearts in the matter of your magnanimity are clear of impurities so sympathy predominates in you for them. But they in their ferocious recal- citrance and antagonism deceive you in what they are capable of doing. Because of their savageness you will not receive a drop of anything from them but their rage so free your heart of them O Muḥammad.” Say: “Perish in your rage. God knows what is in the breasts.” “Leave them alone in suffering the rage that is mixed up inside them and find peace in your hearts [in relation] to what has happened to them for God is nearer to His servants; He bestows what He will on whom He will.”
