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اَلْمُؤَخِّر
al-Muʾakhkhir
He who Holds Back
Who keeps what He wills behind.
The tongue
From ʾ-kh-r; taʾakhkhur is delay. An intensive form: He places behind, He defers.
The reason
He delays what He wills: a chastisement that might fall, a grace the soul is not yet ready to receive, a victory that would need to be tamed.
The Sufi meaning
The delay you undergo is not a forgetting: it is often a hidden gift. What arrives later arrives riper.
The servant's portion
Accept the delays of life; do not rush upon the unripe fruit.