Rather, did you think-O believers-that you would enter Paradise, while there had not yet struck you the like of the trial that struck the believers who passed before you: of poverty, illnesses, fear, and terror, and they were shaken by types of fears, until their Messenger and the believers with him said-by way of seeking haste for victory from Allah the Exalted-: "When is the victory of Allah?" Unquestionably, the victory of Allah is near to the believers.