Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

means but upon Allâhu ta’âlâ. This means to say that it is harâm
to live in a cave far from urban areas and to say that one is having
tawakkul. It means to throw oneself into death. It means to stand
against Allâhu ta’âlâ’s law and habit. The state of such a person
is like the state of a person who hires a lawyer but does not give
the file to the lawyer although he knows that it is the lawyer’s
habit not to go to the law court without reading the papers in the
file, and he still relies on the lawyer. Once upon a time a person
wanted to become a zâhid and cease from the world. He entered
a cave in the mountains, did tawakkul and waited for sustenance.
Days passed but nothing came to him. He was about to die of
hunger, when Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded the Prophet ‘’alaihissalât-u-wa-s-salâm’
of that time, “Go and tell that idiot! If he
does not go into the city and live among the people, I will kill him
with hunger. Does he want to violate My ’âdat?” After the
Prophet informed him of this, he went into the city, where
something was brought to him from each part of the city. Allâhu
ta’âlâ declares: “I like to send My slaves their food not directly
but through My other slaves.” Likewise, it is harâm for a person
to hide himself somewhere in the city or to shut himself up in his
house and do tawakkul by not opening the door to anybody. It is
not permissible to give up causes that are certain. If he does not
shut the door of the house in the city and opens it for those who
will come by, he will have done tawakkul, on condition that his
mind will not be busy with the door, nor will he wonder if there
is somebody bringing something. His heart should be with Allâhu
ta’âlâ only. He should be busy with worshipping. Even if there
are no means in sight, he should still know for certain that his
sustenance will not be cut off. It has been said that if you run
away from your sustenance, your sustenance will run after you,
and it is true. If a person invokes Allâhu ta’âlâ, “O Allah! Don’t
give me sustenance!” Allâhu ta’âlâ will declare, “O you
ignoramus! I have created you. Why shouldn’t I give your
sustenance?” Then, to have tawakkul means to hold fast to
causes and to depend not upon causes but upon the Creator of
causes. Everybody is eating Allâhu ta’âlâ’s sustenance. But some
eat it by putting up with the disgrace of begging, some [e.g.
tradesmen, merchants] by suffering the boredom of waiting,
some [e.g. artists, workers] by getting tired, and some [e.g. men of
knowledge] in dignity and comfort without expecting from
anybody but Allâhu ta’âlâ.
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