Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

HOW TO PERFORM TAWAKKUL?
Every grade in Islam is based upon three fundamentals: ’ilm
(knowledge), hâl (state), and ’amal (deed). We have defined
what tawakkul is and explained its state. Now we shall explain its
deed, i.e., how to do tawakkul. Many people think that tawakkul
is to leave things to take their own course; not to do anything with
one’s option; not to work to earn money; not to save; not to avoid
snakes, lions or poisons; not to take medicine in case of illness;
not to learn one’s faith, Islam; and not to avoid the enemies of
Islam. [Also, the enemies of Islam, by giving tawakkul and
contentment such a meaning, say that Islam is laziness, that
religion is opium. They attack Islam. They strive to deceive
youngsters and to make them disbelievers, nonbelievers. They
basely slander Islam.] It is wrong to think of tawakkul as such. It
is incompatible with Islam. Tawakkul is something commanded
by Islam. How can things unsuitable with Islam ever be
tawakkul?
There are different kinds of tawakkul in optional actions, that
is, in actions done willingly, in earning money and property, in
using one’s existing money and property, in avoiding danger and
in curing illnesses and invalids. We will explain these four kinds
of tawakkul in their right order:
1 — Tawakkul in earning property and in buying useful
things:
Here the tawakkul of bachelors, of people who live alone, and
the tawakkul of the married, of people who have others to
support, are unlike each other.
For people who have nobody else to support, in their earning
property, in their satisfying their needs, there are three kinds of
tawakkul with regard to causes:
I — First kind of causes are the means which it is Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s divine habit (’âdat) to make means for His creating
things. [To create means to make from nothing, or to turn
existing things into things with other properties through laws of
physics, chemistry, physiology or metaphysics.] These causes are
learned with experience. Not to hold fast to such causes would be
madness and idiocy, rather than tawakkul, and has nothing to do
with tawakkul. For example, it would be idiocy, not tawakkul, not
to eat anything when you are hungry and to say that Allâhu ta’âlâ
will feed you if He likes without eating or that He will send the
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