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Trust in God (tawakkul)

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Tawakkul in the forty-ninth hadith of Ibn Rajab's additions is the heart's worship answered with provision: 'were you to put your trust in God as He deserves, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds — they set out hungry in the morning and return full in the evening' — true tawakkul is the heart's reliance on God for obtaining what is sought together with taking the means, as the birds' own morning flight shows, not the abandoning of effort; the birds themselves set out and return, joining work with entrustment (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 914).

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The Prophetic Era
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Based on
Arba'un 49 — were you to trust in God as He deserves
Part of
Iman (faith)

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Vain desire (hawa)· Love for one's brother· Ihsan (excellence in worship)· Istiqama (steadfast uprightness)· Hypocrisy (nifaq)· Islam (the religion and the term)· Arba'un 2 — the hadith of Jibril

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  • Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.