(3:159) Section Two: On Rida God, the Glorious and the Exalted, has said: .

(3:159) Section Two: On Rida God, the Glorious and the Exalted, has said: ... That you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor rejoice in what has come to you ... (57:23) Rida is gratification and its fruit is love. It entails the absence of resentment, outward and inward, in the heart, in speech and action. Those who are preoccupied with the outward (ahl-e zahir) are eager that God, the Exalted, be pleased with them, that they may remain secure from His wrath and punishment.

The seekers of the Truth (ahl-e haqiqat) are eager that they may remain pleased with God, the Exalted, so that none of such various states as life and death, survival and annihilation, pain and comfort, felicity and wretchedness, prosperity and poverty be contrary to their desire, leading them to prefer one of them to the other, for their knowing that all of them are from the exalted Creator.

The love of God, the Exalted, is fixed in their nature, and hence they do not seek anything beyond what He wills and determines and are well-pleased with whatever befalls them. It is related of one of the sages who possessed this station that in seventy years of a lifetime he never said when something happened "Had it not happened!" nor "Had it happened!" when something didn't.

And a sage when asked concerning the effect of rida he had found within himself answered, "I do not find any trace of rida within myself.

Yet, if I were to be made into a bridge extending over the hell and all the creation, from the first to the last, were to pass over me into paradise and I alone were consigned to hell, it would never occur to me why I didn't receive what others did." And when the equality of the different aforementioned states becomes well-established in one's nature, that which happens accords wish his real desire.

Hence it has been said that Everyone gets what he deserves and deserves what he gets.' For one who has found the Truth, God's good-pleasure with a servant is realized when the servant's good pleasure with God is obtained: God being well-pleased with them and they well-pleased with Him ....

(5:119) Hence whenever one has an objection concerning the occurrence of something, whatsoever that may be, or when there is a probability of its coming to one's mind, one would be devoid of the station of rida. One who possesses the station of rida is always in a state of ease, for he has no preferences or reservations, or rather his preferences accord with all that happens and doesn't happen: ...