Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

It is not easy to attain such tawakkul. All your property has
been stolen, or you have undergone a great catastrophe, and your
heart still does not change; this is not something everybody can
do. People who have such tawakkul are very few, but they are not
nonexistent. Attaining such tawakkul requires the heart’s
complete and positive belief in the endlessness of Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
blessing, compassion and favouring, and in that His power is in
the greatest perfection. One must think that He sends sustenance
to many people although they do not have any capital, while, on
the other hand, many fortunes cause perdition. One must as well
know that it is good for one if one loses one’s own capital.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “A person
spends the night thinking of the thing he is going to do the next
day. But that thing will bring calamity upon him. Allâhu ta’âlâ,
pitying this slave of His, does not let him do it. And he, in his turn,
becomes sad because he is not able to do it. Thinking, ‘Why
hasn’t this business of mine been accomplished? Who doesn’t let
me do it? Who on earth is doing this enmity against me?’ and he
begins to think ill of his friends. However, Allâhu ta’âlâ, having
mercy upon him, has protected him against calamity.” For this
reason Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ said: “If I become poor,
needy tomorrow, I will never feel sorry. I will never think of
becoming rich, for I do not know which is better for me.”
What has to be known secondly is that such things as fearing
poverty and belief in ill omen are caused by the devil. As a matter
of fact, it is stated in Baqara Sûra: “Satan promises you that you
will fall into a needy situation.” It is a high-level ma’rifat to trust
in Allâhu ta’âlâ’s compassion. It has always been seen that He
sends plenty of sustenance from unexpected places through
means that could not be thought of. But one should not depend
on the secret means, either; one should trust in the Creator of the
means. Once there was a man of tawakkul who spent his time
worshipping in a mosque every day. The imâm of the mosque
said to him, “You are poor. You’d better find a job,” to which the
man answered, “One of my neighbors, who is a Jew, sends me
what I need every day.” Then, the imâm said, “Then, you have
secured your position. It will do you no harm not to work.” Upon
this he said to the îmâm, “Then, you better quit your job of being
an imâm for the people, for a person who holds a Jew’s word
superior to Allah’s word is not worthy of being an imâm.” The
imâm of another mosque said to one of the assembly, “How do
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