In the transitive form, some have said, when it requires two maf’ul, the sense of preventing and depriving ( man’ ) is assured .... Tawakkul, is something other than tafwid; and the two are different from rida and wuthuq, as will be explained later on.
We will now explain this noble tradition in a number of sections: Tawakkul And Its Degrees Know, that closely related meanings have been ascribed to tawakkul by the various definitions proposed by different schools, each according to its own approach. The author of Manazil al-sai’rin says: التَّوَكُّلُ كِلَةُ الأَمْرِ كُلِّهِ إلَى مَالِكِهِ وَالتَّعْوِيلُ عَلَى وَكَالَتِهِ.
Tawakkul means entrusting all the matters to their Master and relying upon His trusteeship.[^2] Some urafa have said: التَّوَكُّلُ طَرْحُ البَدَنِ فِي العُبُودِيَّةِ وَتَعَلُّقُ القَلْبِ بِالرُّبُوبِيَّةِ. Tawakkul means throwing the body down (as in prostration) in servitude (to God) and attaching the heart to (His) Lordship. That is, it means using one’s bodily powers in obedience to God and refraining from interfering in the matters (of the heart) and consigning it to the Lord.
Some others have said: التَّوَكُّلُ عَلَى اللهِ انْقِطَاعُ العَبْدِ فِي جَمِيعِ مَا يَأْمُلُهُ مِنَ المَخْلُوقِينَ. Tawakkul upon God means the severance by the servant of all hopes and expectations from the creatures (and attaching, them to God). The meanings mentioned are. closely related arid there is no need to delve further on the meaning of the word. However, that which should be mentioned is that tawakkul has various degrees in accordance with the stations of the devotees.
Since the knowledge of these degrees of tawakkul depends on the knowledge of the various degrees of the devotee’s knowledge of their Lord, the Almighty and the Glorious, we cannot avoid discussing them here. Let it be known to you that one of the esoteric principles of the wayfarers of the Path, without which no progress is possible, is the knowledge of God’s Lordship and Mastership and the quality of the sway of the Holy Essence over all affairs.
We shall not discuss the theoretical aspect of this issue, for it calls for an examination of questions related to free will and predestination, which is not suitable for these pages. Here, we will only mention the different degrees of the people’s knowledge of it. People are very different in regard to the knowledge of the Lordship of the Sacred Essence .of God.