3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

others will bring them to him, it is better for him to preserve
them. In fact, if a person cannot worship and pay his dhikr to
Allâhu ta’âlâ without any worries when he does not have a field,
a workshop or any other means of income, it is better for him to
get a means of income. For, the real purpose is the heart’s
thinking of Allâhu ta’âlâ sedately without worries. Some people
are busied with property. They cannot worship comfortably
while estimating their property. When they have no property any
more, they have no worries, no doubts any more. It is better for
such people not to have property. Others become comfortable
only when they have as much property as to get along. So it is
better for them to acquire a means of income enough for them
to get along. Yet those hearts who are not content with as much
property as to get along but who run after more and who think
of their luxury, comfort and pleasure are not among those
hearts who are attached to Islam. We will not take them into
consideration.
3 — Tawakkul in avoiding danger:
Also, among the means to protect oneself against danger, it
is not one of the principles of tawakkul to give up those means
whose effect is certain or most probable. It does not spoil
tawakkul to close and lock the door of the house lest a thief will
go in. Nor does it not harm one’s tawakkul to carry arms in
dangerous places or to avoid one’s enemies. It does not spoil
tawakkul, either, to wear thick clothes lest one should get cold.
But it spoils tawakkul to be too meticulous by having recourse to
such means as eating much so that the body will be heated by
getting more calories and one will not be cold in winter. So is
the case with cauterizing [a healthy person lest he will get sick]
and incantation. [A doctor is permitted to cauterize a sick
person.] To have tawakkul, it is not necessary to give up those
means that have positive effects and which are known by
everybody. One day a villager came to Rasûlullah ‘sallallâhu
alaihi wa sallam’, who stated to him, “What did you do with
your camel?” When the man answered, “I left it by itself and
had tawakkul in Allâhu ta’âlâ,” “Tie it and then have
tawakkul!” he stated.
It is tawakkul and is good not to prevent an injury caused by
a person and to endure it patiently. As a matter of fact, it is
purported in the sûra of Ahzâb, “Do not respond to the injury
and torments of disbelievers and munâfiqs! I shall punish
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