Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

the property of his Muslim brothers.
Having tawakkul requires zuhd. And being zâhid, in its turn,
does not require tawakkul. Abû Ja’far-i Haddâd was Junayd-i
Baghdâdî’s master. [Haddâd means blacksmith.] He had very
much tawakkul. For twenty years he did not let anybody know of
his tawakkul. Every day he earned one dinâr at the market place.
[A dinâr is equal to one mithqâl of gold. One mithqâl is four
grams and eighty centigrams.] He gave all of it as alms to the
poor. When he was present Junayd would not talk of tawakkul.
“I would feel shame to talk in his presence about things which
exist in him,” he would say.
It signifies weak tawakkul for men of Tasawwuf to walk about
at market-places, in bazaars, among the common people. They
should stay in their homes and expect things from Allâhu ta’âlâ
only. As well, their sitting at a well-known place, at tekkes, is like
sitting at a market-place, in which there is the danger that the
security in their hearts may originate from their fame. But if they
do not remember their fame, they will have had tawakkul like
any working man.
In short, the basis of tawakkul is not to expect anything from
people, not to rely on causes, and to expect all from Allâhu ta’âlâ
only. Ibrâhîm-i Hawwâs says: “I saw Hadrat Khidir. He wanted
to make friends with me. But I did not want it. For, I was afraid
that my heart would feel calm because of the security given by
him and thus my tawakkul would lessen.” Ahmad ibni Hanbal
hired a worker. He asked one of his disciples to give the worker
something plus his daily wage. The worker did not accept it.
Later when the worker was gone, “Catch up with him and give it
to him. He will accept it now,” he said to his disciple. When the
disciple wanted to know the reason why, he said, “First his heart
had been expecting that we would give him something. So he did
not take it. But now, as he is going, he has no such hope left, so it
won’t harm his tawakkul.”
This means to say that the tawakkul of a person who works is
not to depend on his capital. And its symptom is that when he
loses his capital his heart does not feel worried or give up hope of
his sustenance. For, a person who relies on Allâhu ta’âlâ knows
that He will send his sustenance from places he does not expect
at all. If He does not send him sustenance, he will think that this
is better for him.
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