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here are some other excerpts I decided to share on this blog. I've been reading Imam al Ghazali's book entitled Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence. SubhanAllah, it's a deep book, like all other Ghazali books. I've shared this with some sisters, but inshaAllah may we all gain from this sacred knowledge...
"...trust consists in a stable state [of the soul] with knowledge at its root and practice its fruit....tawakkul [trust in divine providence] is derived from wakala [power of attorney, management]. It is said: he entrusted his affairs to someone, that is: he commissioned that one to take care of them, depending on him to do it... the one who entrusted is called wakil [trustee, authorized agent]...So trust of this sort consists in the heart's relying on the trustee alone....
In litigation... if someone has had false charges brought against him, and entrusts the case to one who will expose their dubiety, then that person will be the one upon whom he depends... he has confidence in and in whom his soul can be at peace in entrusting itself to him. But this will be the case only if he can be convinced of four things about him:... he be nothing but rightly guided, exquisitely able and powerful, flawlessly eloquent, and utterly compassionate.... right guidance will show him how to confront the dubious charge....power and ability...will embolden to speak the truth clearly....eloquence...one can clearly articulate everything which the heart emboldens him to say... utterly compassionate.... moves [the attorney] to do everything he possibly can..." He goes on to discuss how if a person didn't have these 4 qualities, a person may be hesitant to put their trust in that wakil.
SubhanAllah this is the parable of the believer because we should put our full faith and trust in Allah and this is our natural fitra! Like how a mother is to her child.... there are those children who know that when they cry, they will be attended to by their mother; yet there is also a state where even when the child doesn't cry, we know that the mother is constantly protecting that child. SubhanAllah we are in the best of hands, and Verily in this may our hearts feel at rest!
InshaAllah may Allah help us all have faith and trust in Him and His divine decree! May He grant us knowledge, certainty, and have our fruit be action for His sake alone! Ameen!
"Indeed, all need and harm in the world, while it represents a deficiency in this world, nonetheless spells an enhancement in the next, and everything which amounts to a deficiency in the next world for one person spells a benefice for another. For if there were no night one would never know the reach of daylight, and absent sickness one would not enjoy good health when one had it; or if there were no hell, the inhabitants of paradise would not know the extent of their blessing....perfection takes precedence over diminishment is proper to justice. Similarly, amplifying blessing on behalf of the inhabitants of paradise while increasing the punishments of the inhabitants of hell, so that the price of the people of faith is paid by the people of unbelief, is quite proper to justice. If diminishment had not been created, the dignity of human beings would not be evident, for perfection and diminishment become evident in relation to one another, so it belongs to generosity and wisdom to create perfection and diminishment together. Just as it is just to cut off an extremity once gangrene has set in, to prolong one's life, because the less perfect is sacrificed to the more perfect , so it is with the order of differences which exist among people in the divisions within this world and the next. All of that is just with no injustice in it; true with no jest in it." (p. 49).
here are some other excerpts I decided to share on this blog. I've been reading Imam al Ghazali's book entitled Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence. SubhanAllah, it's a deep book, like all other Ghazali books. I've shared this with some sisters, but inshaAllah may we all gain from this sacred knowledge...
"...trust consists in a stable state [of the soul] with knowledge at its root and practice its fruit....tawakkul [trust in divine providence] is derived from wakala [power of attorney, management]. It is said: he entrusted his affairs to someone, that is: he commissioned that one to take care of them, depending on him to do it... the one who entrusted is called wakil [trustee, authorized agent]...So trust of this sort consists in the heart's relying on the trustee alone....
In litigation... if someone has had false charges brought against him, and entrusts the case to one who will expose their dubiety, then that person will be the one upon whom he depends... he has confidence in and in whom his soul can be at peace in entrusting itself to him. But this will be the case only if he can be convinced of four things about him:... he be nothing but rightly guided, exquisitely able and powerful, flawlessly eloquent, and utterly compassionate.... right guidance will show him how to confront the dubious charge....power and ability...will embolden to speak the truth clearly....eloquence...one can clearly articulate everything which the heart emboldens him to say... utterly compassionate.... moves [the attorney] to do everything he possibly can..." He goes on to discuss how if a person didn't have these 4 qualities, a person may be hesitant to put their trust in that wakil.
SubhanAllah this is the parable of the believer because we should put our full faith and trust in Allah and this is our natural fitra! Like how a mother is to her child.... there are those children who know that when they cry, they will be attended to by their mother; yet there is also a state where even when the child doesn't cry, we know that the mother is constantly protecting that child. SubhanAllah we are in the best of hands, and Verily in this may our hearts feel at rest!
InshaAllah may Allah help us all have faith and trust in Him and His divine decree! May He grant us knowledge, certainty, and have our fruit be action for His sake alone! Ameen!
"Indeed, all need and harm in the world, while it represents a deficiency in this world, nonetheless spells an enhancement in the next, and everything which amounts to a deficiency in the next world for one person spells a benefice for another. For if there were no night one would never know the reach of daylight, and absent sickness one would not enjoy good health when one had it; or if there were no hell, the inhabitants of paradise would not know the extent of their blessing....perfection takes precedence over diminishment is proper to justice. Similarly, amplifying blessing on behalf of the inhabitants of paradise while increasing the punishments of the inhabitants of hell, so that the price of the people of faith is paid by the people of unbelief, is quite proper to justice. If diminishment had not been created, the dignity of human beings would not be evident, for perfection and diminishment become evident in relation to one another, so it belongs to generosity and wisdom to create perfection and diminishment together. Just as it is just to cut off an extremity once gangrene has set in, to prolong one's life, because the less perfect is sacrificed to the more perfect , so it is with the order of differences which exist among people in the divisions within this world and the next. All of that is just with no injustice in it; true with no jest in it." (p. 49).
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