3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

some good and sweet food.” Up to that time he had not been
seen buying so much. He ate with the guest. The guest, when
leaving the house, took the rest of the food with him. Seeing his
disciple’s astonishment, he said, “This guest was Fat’h-i Mûsulî.
He came from Mûsul in order to teach us a lesson. He has
showed us that a person whose tawakkul is strong will not be
harmed by preserving food.” This means to say that tawakkul
means not to busy one’s mind about the future. For this reason,
one should not stock for the future and, if one stocks
something, one should not deem it as something in one’s own
hand but as something which Allâhu ta’âlâ will give in the future;
that is, one should not depend on it.
Tawakkul for the married: It does not spoil tawakkul for
one who has a wife and children to preserve goods for a year. If
it is for more than a year, it spoils tawakkul. Our Prophet
‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’ used to preserve a year’s need for
his household because their hearts were weak. Yet for himself
he would not keep even a day’s need. If he had kept it, it would
not have harmed his tawakkul. For, it was equal for him if he
had or not. But he used to do so in order to teach his Ummat.
Once, when one of his Sahâba ‘alaihimurridvân’ passed away,
two gold coins were found in his pocket. Our Prophet stated,
“This is a sign of two torments.” This torment must be the
sorrow caused by not reaching a higher grade in Paradise. As a
matter of fact, when someone else died, he stated, “On the
Day of Resurrection his face will shine like the full moon. If
he had not prepared his summer clothes in winter and his
winter clothes in summer it would shine like the sun.” At
some other time he declared, “What you have been given
least is yaqîn and patience.” In other words, preparing one’s
clothes a year before is caused by one’s having little yaqîn.
However, as agreed by all our superiors, it is permissible and
necessary and does not spoil tawakkul to preserve those things
that are always necessary in the house, such as water
containers, water installation, table services, means of sewing
and cleaning. For, Allâhu ta’âlâ has created this world in such
an order that food and clothes supply come out freshly every
year. It is not permissible to disobey Allah’s law. But house
gadgets may not be available whenever they are needed.
NOTE: If a person’s heart does not feel calm when he does
not preserve his food and clothing and if in this case he expects
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