Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

shall be one of them.” So Rasûlullah prayed: “Yâ Rabbî! Include
him among them!” But when someone else stood up and asked
for the same benediction, he stated: “Uqâsha has beaten you to
it.”
He stated in another hadîth-i-sherîf: “If you put your tawakkul
in Allâhu ta’âlâ thoroughly, He would send your sustenance as He
sends it to birds. Birds go out with empty, hungry stomachs in the
morning and come back with their stomachs filled, satiated in the
evening.” He stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “If a person trusts himself
to Allâhu ta’âlâ, Allâhu ta’âlâ will come to his help in every thing
he does. He will send him food from places which he does not
expect at all. If anyone trusts the world, He will leave him in the
world.” When Hadrat Ibrâhim was put on the catapult and was
about to be hurled into the fire, he said: “Hasbiyallah wa ni’mal
wakîl,” which means “My Allah will suffice for me. He is a good
guardian, a good helper.” As he fell into the fire Hadrat Gabriel
(Jebrâil) came to him and asked: “Do you have any wish?” “Yes,
I do, but not from you,” he said. Thus, he proved true to his word
“Hasbiyallah.” Therefore, he was praised in Wannajmi Sûra:
“Ibrâhim, a man of his word.” Allâhu ta’âlâ declared to Hadrat
Dâwûd: “If a person gives up hope of everything and puts his trust
in Me only, I shall certainly rescue him even if all the beings on
earth and in heaven strive to harm and deceive him.” Sa’îd bin
Jubayr narrates: “Once a scorpion stung me on the hand. My
mother adjured me to hold out my hand so that they would utter
an incantation, that is, lots of absurd words. I held out my other
hand, so they chanted some incantatiton.” Sa’îd did not hold out
his hand because Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ had
stated: “A person who practises incantation or who cauterizes with
fire has not put his tawakkul in Allâhu ta’âlâ.” Hadrat Ibrâhim
Ad’ham ‘quddisa sirruh’ asked a priest, “How do you make a
living?” The latter replied, “Ask the One who sends my
sustenance whence He sends it. I don’t know.” Someone was
asked, “You pray everyday. What do you eat and drink?” He
showed his teeth in answer. That is, “He who makes the mill will
send its water,” he meant to say. Herem bin Hayyân asked Uways
Qarnî [who is also called Waysalqarânî], “Where shall I settle?”
“In Damascus,” he answered. When the former asked, “I wonder
how the life standard in Damascus is?” the latter said, “Shame
upon those hearts who doubt about their sustenance! Advice will
do them no good!”
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