3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

still relies on the lawyer. Once upon a time a person wanted to
become a zâhid and cease from the world. He entered a cave in
the mountains, did tawakkul and waited for sustenance. Days
passed but nothing came to him. He was about to die of
hunger, when Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded the prophet of that
time, “Go and tell that idiot! If he does not go into the city and
live among the people, I will kill him with hunger. Does he want
to violate My ’âdat?” After the prophet informed him of this, he
went into the city, where something was brought to him from
each part of the city. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares: “I like to send My
slaves their food not directly but through My other slaves.”
Likewise, it is harâm for a person to hide himself somewhere in
the city or to shut himself up in his house and do tawakkul by
not opening the door to anybody. It is not permissible to give up
causes that are certain. If he does not shut the door of the
house in the city and opens it for those who will come by, he will
have done tawakkul, on condition that his mind will not be busy
with the door, nor will he wonder if there is somebody bringing
something. His heart should be with Allâhu ta’âlâ only. He
should be busy with worshipping. Even if there are no means in
sight, he should still know for certain that his sustenance will not
be cut off. It has been said that if you run away from your
sustenance, your sustenance will run after you, and it is true. If
a person invokes Allâhu ta’âlâ, “O Allah! Don’t give me
sustenance!” Allâhu ta’âlâ will declare, “O you ignoramus! I
have created you. Why shouldn’t I give your sustanence?”
Then, to have tawakkul means to hold fast to causes and to
depend not upon causes but upon the Creator of causes.
Everybody is eating Allah’s sustenance. But some eat it by
putting up with the disgrace of begging, some [e.g. tradesmen,
merchants] by suffering the boredom of waiting, some [e.g.
artists, workers] by getting tired, and some [e.g. men of
knowledge] in dignity and comfort without expecting from
anybody but Allâhu ta’âlâ.
III — Third group of causes are those whose effect is not for
certain, nor are they always necessary but are obtained by
thinking and searching. Earning money through such causes is
like curing the sick by means of augury and incantation, about
which our Prophet ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’, while explaining
tawakkul, stated, ‘Those who have tawakkul do not cure the
sick by augury and incantation.” He did not say, “Those who
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