3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

question in mind and consequently one’s not working and
sowing one’s seeds. He who does not sow the seeds in the
world cannot harvest in the Hereafter. What signifies that it has
been predestined in the eternal past that a person will die of
hunger is the coming of the thought, “It will do me no good to
eat and drink if it has been written on my forehead that I shall
die of hunger,” to his heart. Because he thinks so he does not
eat or drink and then dies of hunger. Likewise, a person who
says, “If poverty is my fate what use is it to work?” does not
work and certainly becomes poor. But a person whose fate is
happiness and wealth thinks and says, “Those who are
predestined as rich will work.” This thought of his drives him to
work. Then, these thoughts are not meaningless. They occur to
the heart on account of the predestination in the eternal past.
They cause the predestination to manifest. The cause of
whatever a person is created for will be brought before him. It is
not without reason that he is given the work. For this reason it
has been purported, “Work! Whatever a person is created for
will be made easy for him!” Then everyone, from the
situations and actions into which he has been driven, can make
a guess about his predestination and what will become of him in
the Hereafter. A student who studies his lessons and who does
his duty should deem this state of his as glad tidings, a
symptom signifying that he will pass his course and that he will
occupy a ranking position in the future. But if the thought, “If my
destiny is ignorance, it will be of no use no matter how hard I
study,” is brought to his heart, and he does not study but
wastes his time; it should be inferred that ignorance is his
destiny. So should the qadâ and qadar be known pertaining to
the situation in the Hereafter. As a matter of fact, it is purported
in the sûra of Loqmân, “The creation of you all in the world
and your resurrection in the Hereafter are like the creation
and resurrection of one person.” And it is purported in the
sûra of Jâsiyya, “Their states in the Hereafter are like their
states in this world.” He who understands this writing of ours
well will have tawhîd. He will realize that the Sharî’at, mind and
tawhîd agree with one another.
The second îmân, which is the basis of tawakkul, is to
believe that Allâhu ta’âlâ is Rahîm (merciful, compassionate),
Hakîm (judicious, wise) and Latîf (gracious). His grace and
mercy reach every creature from the ant to man. His mercy,
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