Chapter V: Oneness of God and Trust in God
Similar is God reliance. When reliance on an wakil with such descriptions is made, how much reliance on God should be made? When you believe that there is no master of an action, besides God, that he is All powerful and All knowing, that He bestows His kindness, favour, help on all the people 'and some special peoples, that there is no power and might except through God, there is no knowledge but in Him, he must rely on him and will not look to his own power and strength as there is no power except in God. If you do not find in you this reliance, it is for two reasons-weakness in you in any one of the four qualities and weakness of faith in your mind. So without the united strength of mind and faith, God reliance does not become perfect. With these two things peace of mind can be attained. Peace of mind is one thing and certainty of faith is another thing. There are many men with â– certainty of faith who have got no peace of mind as Hazrat Ibrahim said: O my Lord, show me how you give life to a dead thing. God said: Have you got no faith? He said: Yes, I have, but in order to console my mind. Hazrat Ibrahim had full faith, but he was eager to see it to bring his peace of mind. There are many men having peace of man but with no sure faith. A Jew or a Christian may have peace of mind but no sure faith.
Three classes of God-reliant man. There are three classes of God- reliant men according to the measure of their reliance on God.
The first class of God reliant man is like one who entrusts all his affairs in a case to his wakil who is appointed by him from a consideration of his ability, eloquence and kindness. The second class of God-reliant man is more developed than the first. His condition is like that of an infant who knows nobody except his mother. When any danger comes, he takes refuge to his mother and believes nobody except his mother. In every condition, he catches hold of her cloth. When any danger comes to him in absence of his mother, the first word he utters - O mother. Such a God-reliant man
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relies on God as a child relies on his mother. The difference between the first and second classes is that in the latter one annihilates himself in God-reliance, while it is not so in the first case.