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If you feel that God has denied you the world and has increased your difficulties and hardships, then know that you have become important to Him, and that you have with Him a special standing, and that He is taking you down the path of His Friends and His Elect Ones, and that He is Gazing at you.
Have you not heard His Words, "So, be patient for verily you are in Our Sight."
— Imām al-Ghazālī