35 Preface وَما يُلَقّاها إِلَّا الَّذينَ صَبَروا وَما يُلَقّاها إِلّا ذو حَظٍّ عَظيمٍYusuf AliAnd no one will be1 granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and selfrestraint,- none but persons of the greatest good fortune.The moral standard referred to in the last verse can only be reached by the exercise of the highest patience and self-restraint All sorts of human weaknesses and counsels of pseudo-wisdom and “self-respect” will keep breaking in, but resist them as suggestions of Evil (see next verse). If you reach anywhere near that high standard, you will be indeed most fortunate in a spiritual sense, for God’s Revelation will have made you great and free.