Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

not preserve his food and clothing and if in this case he expects
others will bring them to him, it is better for him to preserve
them. In fact, if a person cannot worship and offer his dhikr to
Allâhu ta’âlâ without any worries when he does not have a field,
a workshop or any other means of income, it is better for him to
get a means of income. For, the real purpose is the heart’s
thinking of Allâhu ta’âlâ sedately without worries. Some people
are busied with property. They cannot worship comfortably while
estimating their property. When they have no property any more,
they have no worries, no doubts any more. It is better for such
people not to have property. Others become comfortable only
when they have as much property as to get along. So it is better
for them to acquire a means of income enough for them to get
along. Yet those hearts who are not content with as much
property as to get along but who run after more and who think of
their luxury, comfort and pleasure are not among those hearts
who are attached to Islam. We will not take them into
consideration.
3 — Tawakkul in avoiding danger:
Also, concerning the means to protect oneself against danger,
it is not one of the principles of tawakkul to give up those means
whose effect is certain or most probable. It does not spoil
tawakkul to close and lock the door of the house lest a thief will
go in. Nor does it harm one’s tawakkul to carry arms at
dangerous places or to avoid one’s enemies. It does not spoil
tawakkul, either, to wear thick clothes lest one should get cold.
But it spoils tawakkul to be too meticulous by having recourse to
such means as eating much so that the body will be heated by
getting more calories and one will not be cold in winter. So is the
case with cauterizing [a healthy person lest he will get sick] and
incantation. [A doctor is permitted to cauterize a sick person.] To
have tawakkul, it is not necessary to give up those means that
have positive effects and which are commonly known. One day a
villager came to Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, who
stated to him, “What did you do with your camel?” When the
man answered, “I left it by itself and had tawakkul in Allâhu
ta’âlâ,” “Tie it and then have tawakkul!” he stated.
It is tawakkul and is good not to prevent an injury caused by
a person and to endure it patiently. As a matter of fact, it is
purported in the forty-eighth âyat-i-kerîma of Ahzâb Sûra: “Do
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