which Allah bestows upon His servant, for the opposite is that a person should have no presence, no respect, and no dignified bearing; instead, he is contemptible, having demeaned and debased himself. In the same way, the antithesis of tranquility is to be restless, forever turning this way and that, showing no sign of inner calm in heart, word, or deed. When Allah favors a servant with these two qualities, he thereby attains two noble traits.

Their opposite is also haste: that a person rushes forward without verification or deliberation, concerned with nothing but idle talk—“he said, she said”—which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ expressly forbade. Indeed, he used to prohibit gossip, excessive questioning, and the squandering of wealth. When a person is neither deliberate nor careful in his affairs, many errors flow from him; people cease to place trust in what he says, and he comes to be counted among those whose reports are rejected and from whom no benefit is sought.

The author then adduces as proof the words of Allah the Exalted: “And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth with humility, and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.” (Quran 25:63)