“Sometimes He makes you learn in the night of contraction what you have not learned in the radiance of the day of expansion. "You do not know which of them is nearer to you in benefit."
"When God loosens your tongue in supplication, know that He wants to give you something."
- Kitab al-Hikam (Book of Wisdom) - Ahmed Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari (d. 1309)