Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

think He has forgotten about you, remind Him!” When they said,
“We are having tawakkul. We will see where he will send it
from,” he said, “Having tawakkul and testing and trying at the
same time shows that there is doubt in one’s îmân!” When they
said, “What should we do, then?” “You should work as He has
commanded, you should not worry about your sustenance, nor
run after means.” We should trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ’s promise
about sustenance. He makes the person who works in obedience
to His commandments attain his sustenance.
Tawakkul for the married: It is not right for a married person
to go away from town in order to perform tawakkul. He has to
work and hold fast to causes. In other words, the tawakkul of the
married must be in the third grade. That is, they have to do
tawakkul by working. As a matter of fact, Abû Bakr Siddîq
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ performed tawakkul by working. For, there
are two parts of tawakkul. The first one is to endure hunger
patiently and eat what one happens to find. The second one is to
believe that if death of hunger is one’s destiny it will be good for
one. No one is permitted to command these two parts of
tawakkul to his household. In fact, a person who is not patient
enough is not permitted to have tawakkul without working. If
one’s wife and children also consent to being patient, then it will
be permissible to have tawakkul without working. In short, it is
permissible to force oneself to endure inconvenience patiently,
but it is not permissible to force one’s family.
2 — Tawakkul in preserving existing money and property:
Here, too, the tawakkul of bachelors who have no one else to
support is different from the tawakkul of those who have a family
to support.
If those who have no one else to support stock their one year’s
needs, this will spoil their tawakkul. For, in this case they will
have trusted in causes. A single person who keeps as much food
as to feed himself and as many clothes as to get dressed has had
tawakkul. It is said that it would not spoil tawakkul to preserve
one’s forty days’ needs. Sahl bin ’Abdullah-i Tusturî said: “A
single person’s preserving his food, no matter for how long, spoils
his tawakkul.” Abû Tâlib-i Mekkî, a great man of Tasawwuf,
said: “If he does not depend on what he preserves, it will not spoil
his tawakkul even if he preserves it for longer than forty days.”
Bishr-i Hâfî was one of the great men of Tasawwuf. One day a
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