The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Eleven: The Devil's Deception ef the i!fts
Section One:
Reliance is Consistent with Seeking
Sustenance
Iblis decieved many of them into the belief that reliance is inconsistent
with seeking sustenance.
Sahl Ibn 'Abdullah al-Tasturi said: Whoever condemns reliance
then he condemns imdn, and he who condemns seeking sustenance,
then he condemns the Sunnah.
A man asked Abu 'Abdullah Ibn Salim: Are we required to seek
sustenance or to have reliance? He said: Reliance was the condition
of the Messenger of Allah (;i), and seeking sustenance was from
his Sunnah; he only enjoined sustenance on one who was too weak
for reliance, and had fallen below the stage of perfection which was
the Messenger of Allah (;i). One who is too weak for the condition
of reliance, which was that of the Messenger of Allah (;i), is permitted
to earn his sustenance, that he may not fall below the stage
of his (;i) Sunnah and condition.
Yusuf Ibn al-J:Iusayn said: "If you see a disciple who is too occupied
with gaining sustenance then know that nothing good will come
out of him."
These people who do not understand the meaning of reliance and
suppose that it is refraining from earning sustenance and keeping
the limbs inactive. We have clarified that reliance is an action ef the heart
which does not contradict the actions ef the limbs.
If all of those who attempt to gain sustenance did not have proper
reliance, then Prophets would not have been people with reliance.
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