Sol 5.6

  1. You have waited in forbearance, O Most Patient; it is only

    until an appointed term, deferring just punishment.

  2. You have delayed seizing the disobedient, out of graciousness

    and gentleness, and have not seized a rebel in haste.

  3. Beyond mere forbearance, You have settled them in an abode

    of goodness in this world, despite their sin—

  4. as though their sins were means of attaining favor.

    Exalted are You! This is generosity at its utmost.

  5. Though You see their secret and open acts

    of disobedience to You, O God, committed without fear.

  6. Exalted are You! This patience is the patience of deliberation,

    befitting the station of divine absoluteness and self-sufficiency.

  7. Exalted are You! No rushing haste has impelled You

    to act before the appointed time.

  8. Rather, the affair—its measures known—has already proceeded

    along fixed courses ordained by the Will.

  9. Thus, Your deferring what You defer is forbearance prolonged,

    and Your advancing what You advance is not from haste,

  10. so that You consign what You decree to its proper time,

    in accordance with what You deem fitting for the decree,

  11. without struggling against any impulse opposed to

    Your supreme will, and without hardship.

Sol 5.6