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One repentant said: I am repentant of God and not to Muhammad. The Prophet then said: This man recognised the right of one having right. He who attributes anything to God is really truthful. He recognises truth and its real nature. He who attributes everything to anything other than God is misguided.
Nothing has got the existence of its own. It depends on the existence of another. In that context the former thing is void. In fact, there is no truth except the Ever-living and Ever-existing.
He exists by his own attribute. He is the truth and anything besides Him is void. The saint Sahal Tastari said: O writer, there was, God but you were not. He will exist and you will not exist you say now: I exist because I exist now. You did not exist before but now you say, I exist. So whose exists at present did not exist before.

Question: Now it has been proved that everything is subject to order. So what is the meaning of reward and punishment, sin and virtue, pleasure of God and wrath of God?

Answer: Know, O readers, we have described it in the chapter of Gratefulness that good and evil occur at His.
command. What has been ordered for a thing must occur. It has got no failure no disobedience. Everything was written. It awaits only for time, because everything written will occur in your case and must come to pass. What will not occur, it shall not come.
What will occur in your case has been made easy for you and what will not occur has been made difficult for you.

STAGES OF GOD-RELIANCE: The stages of God-reliance are connected with knowledge, condition and action. We have discussed about knowledge, condition is the intermediary between knowledge and action. Knowledge is the basis of condition and action is its fruit.

MEANING OF GOD RELIANCE: The meaning of Tawakkal or reliance is to entrust an affair to another and to believe him fully in that respect. He who is entrusted upon is called' wakil or pleader and he who entrusts in called Moakkil or client. So sure faith in wakil is called reliance. I shall cite an example of an wakil in case of litigation. An wakil shall have four qualities - (1)
sufficient power to understand^ (2) ability, (3) power of speech, and (4) sympathy and kindness for client. With regard to the first quality, he must have power to understand the places of

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deception, false claim and even the minutest details. With regard to the second quality, nobody engages an wakil having no ability.
He shall not flatter, shall not fear to disclose truth or feel shame or show cowardice. With regard to the third quality of power speech, he must have it, otherwise many good reasons can not be shown for want of clear expression. With regard to the fourth quality, he must try to help an oppressed client.