Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

property. Hasan-i Basrî, seeing this subtlety clearly, said: “If all
the inhabitants of Basra were my children and if one seed of
wheat cost a dinâr, I’d never feel worried.” Wahab bin Werd says:
“Supposing the sky became iron and the earth turned into
bronze, I would not deem myself a Muslim if I felt worried about
my sustenance.” Allâhu ta’âlâ sends the sustenance from the sky.
[This fact is stated clearly in âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-isherîfs.
Today scientists have begun to realize this fact. In rainy
weather, owing to lightning, the nitrogen gas in the air chemically
combines with oxygen gas, forming a colourless gas called
nitrogen monoxide. This gas cannot remain stable in the air.
Combining with oxygen again, it turns into nitrogen dioxide. And
this gas, which is orange-colored and suffocating, combines with
the moisture of the air and turns into nitric acid. On the other
hand, the hydrogen gas, which has become free from the air’s
moisture as a result of its disintegration with the effect of
lightning, combines with the air’s nitrogen and turns into
ammonia gas, which, combining with the nitric acid, which has
also been formed meanwhile, and with the carbon dioxide gas,
which already exists in the air, makes the salts called ammonium
nitrate and ammonium carbonate. These two salts, soluble like
the salts of all other alkaline metals, descend on the earth with
rain. The earth turns these substances into calcium nitrate and
gives them to plants. Plants change these salts into albumens
(proteins). Proteins pass into grazing animals and men from
plants. Men take them from plants and from animals that eat
grass. These substances are the building stones of men and
animals. Dry proteins contain 14% nitrogen gas. Now, it has been
calculated today that by means of rains more than four hundred
million tons of the air’s nitrogen falls on the earth and turns into
food each year. The amount that falls on seas is certainly much
more than this. We can understand through science today that
the sustenance descends from the sky in this manner. It must be
descending in many other ways. Maybe in the future science will
be able to discover some of them.]
By informing that He sends everyone’s sustenance (rizq)
down from the sky, Allâhu ta’âlâ declares that no one’s
sustenance can be intercepted. When they said to Junayd-i
Baghdâdî, “We are looking for our sustenance,” he said, “Look
for it where you know it is, if you ever know where it is.” When
they said, “We ask for it from Allâhu ta’âlâ,” he said, “If you
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