Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

guest went up to his presence. He gave a handful of silver to one
of his disciples and said, “Go and buy some good and sweet
food.” Up to that time he had not been seen buying so much. He
ate with the guest. The guest, when leaving the house, took the
rest of the food with him. Seeing his disciple’s astonishment, he
said, “This guest was Fat’h-i Mûsulî. He came from Mûsul in
order to teach us a lesson. He has showed us that a person whose
tawakkul is strong will not be harmed by preserving food.” This
means to say that tawakkul means not to busy one’s mind about
the future. For this reason, one should not stock for the future
and, if one stocks something, one should not deem it as
something in one’s own hand but as something which Allâhu
ta’âlâ will give in the future; that is, one should not depend on it.
Tawakkul for the married: It does not spoil tawakkul for one
who has a wife and children to preserve goods for a year. If it is
for more than a year, it spoils tawakkul. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ used to preserve a year’s need for his household
because their hearts were weak. Yet for himself he would not
keep even a day’s need. If he had kept it, it would not have
harmed his tawakkul. For, it was equal for him if he had or not.
But he used to do so in order to teach his Ummat. Once, when
one of his Sahâba ‘’alaihimurridvân’ passed away, two gold coins
were found in his pocket. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ stated: “This is a sign of double torment.” This torment
must be the sorrow caused by not reaching a higher grade in
Paradise. As a matter of fact, when someone else died, he stated:
“On the Day of Rising his face will shine like the full moon. If he
had not prepared his summer clothes by winter and his winter
clothes by summer it would shine like the sun.” At some other
time he declared: “What you have been given least is yaqîn and
patience.” In other words, preparing one’s clothes a year before
is caused by one’s having little yaqîn. However, as agreed by all
our superiors, it is permissible and necessary and does not spoil
tawakkul to preserve things that are always necessary in the
house, such as water containers, water installation, table services,
means of sewing and cleaning. For, Allâhu ta’âlâ has created this
world in such an order that food and clothes supply come out
freshly every year. It is not permissible to disobey Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
’âdat. But house gadgets may not be available whenever they are
needed.
NOTE: If a person’s heart does not feel calm when he does
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