التوكل

التوكل

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).