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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Attributes of the Noble Chapter 5 : Concerning the States of Those Who Attain Realization This chapter consists of six sections: Section one: on trust (tawakkul) Section two: on resignation (rida) Section three: on submission (taslim) Section four: on tawhid Section five: on ittihad Section six: on wahdah. Section One: On Tawakkul God, the Glorious and the Exalted says: Put you all your trust in God, if you are believers.

(5:23) Tawakkul means to entrust someone with something. Here tawakkul on behalf of a servant means his entrusting his affairs to God, the Exalted, with the conviction that He has greater wisdom and power to determine them according to His providence, and to be happy and satisfied with that which He does and determines: And whoever puts his trust in God, He shall suffice him. Indeed God attains His purpose.

(65:3) Satisfaction with that which God does and causes to happen is attained by reflecting on one's past condition, when He brought one into existence when one knew nothing. Then He fashioned numerous signs of His wisdom in his creation, so much so that one would not be able to know one out of a thousand of them in a lifetime.

Then, without any prior request, He brought him up taking care of everything related to his inward and outward aspects, wherewith he can survive and grow from deficiency to perfection. [Were one to reflect upon these facts], he would know that whatever will happen in the future also will not be without His providence and will.

Thence he would trust Him, the Exalted, and would not worry regarding the remaining matters, being certain that that which has to be accomplished will be done by God, the Exalted, whether he feels agitated or not, because: When someone puts all his trust in God, God takes care of all his needs and provides him in a manner that he does not reckon. 24 Tawakkul does not imply refraining from making effort with the excuse that one has left the matter to God.

Rather, it means that one should have the conviction that everything other than God is from God and that there are many things that happen in the world that occur in accordance with their conditions and causes. That is because when the power and will of Cod, the Exalted, make one thing rather than some other happen, that is inevitably in accordance with the conditions and means associated with that which takes place.