"One who fears Allah and has forbearance...

"One who fears Allah and has forbearance, Allah will give him the sustenance from the lawful [means]; and one who transgresses the limits of propriety, makes haste and seeks it from unlawful means, his lawful sustenance will be decreased and he will be held accountable for it on the day of resurrection ."[^3] ***** Imam as-Sadiq (a.s) said: "The sustenance is divided into two types: • One type of sustenance [from Allah] will reach its owner even if he does not seek it.

He saw a man standing by the door and asked him to look after his horse. When the Imam came out of the mosque, he had two dirhams in his hand that he wanted to give to that man as appreciation for looking after his horse. However, the man was nowhere to be seen. When Imam 'Ali went over to his horse, he saw that the rein was missing. He found one of his companions and gave him two dirhams to buy another rein for his horse.

The companion went to the market place; he saw a man standing by the road and selling a rein. The Imam’s companion bought it for two dirhams. When he brought it back to the Imam, the Imam recognized it to be his own rein that had been stolen by that person. Imam 'Ali had intended to give two dirhams to the person whom he had asked to look after the horse; but the impatience of the ‘guard’ turned him into a thief who in the end got nothing more than the same two dirhams.

His greed and anxiety did not increase his wages at all, he got the same but through haram means! C. Tawakkul and Du’a So the question of tawakkul, relying upon Allah, comes up: Are we not supposed to rely on Him? Does not Allah say? "And put thy trust in God and sufficient is God as dispenser of the affairs."? (4:81) In the light of what was said above, the concept of tawakkul should also be clear. You have to work hard and then trust in Allah to make your efforts fruitful.

Tawakkul is not an excuse for idleness or laziness.