Chapter V: Oneness of God and Trust in God
(6) A slave was required for the sage Bunani. He told his brothers clearly about it. They collected the price of the slave.
They said: The caravan of slave women is coming and you will purchase according to your choice. When the caravan arrived, they all selected a slave woman and said: This slave woman would be better for him. They told her master: What is her price?
He said: This slave woman is not for sale. When they pressed him for sale he said: This slave woman is for Bunan Hammad. I took her for him from Samarkand to present her to him. I took her to Bunan and told him all the details.
(7) It has been reported that in ancient times a man was in journey with a loaf. He said: If I eat it, I will die. God entrusted an angel to him and said: If he eats it, give him more provision and don't give him any other thing. He carried the loaf but did not eat it till this death. It lay before him at the time of his death.
(8) Abu Sayeed Kharraj said: I entered a jungle without taking food and became hungry. I saw a village from a distance and started towards it being pleased. Then I thought within myself: Have I relied on others? So I took oath not to enter the village. I will go there if I am taken there by anybody. I dug a heapful of sands and covered my body upto my breast. At mid night I heard a voice saying: O inhabitants of the village, go to such a person. Then a group of men came and took me out and carried me to the village.
(9) It has been reported that a man kept himself seated before the door of Omar. An unseen voice said : O man, have you taken refuge to Omar and not to God ? Go and turn the Quran, as it will make you free from want from the do&r of Omar. Then the man disappeared from that place. Hazrat Omar also lost him. He took to silence and engaged himself in divine worship. One day Hazrat Omar came to him and said : I was eager for you. Why did you come from my place ? He said : I recite the Quran and that has made me free from seeking assistance from Omar and his family.
Hazrat Omar said : May God shower blessings on you. What
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have you found in the Quran ? He said : I saw therein : There is in the sky your provision and what has been promised to you.
Hazrat Omar said : My provision is in the sky and I am seeking it in the earth. Saying this, he began to weep and said : You have spoken the truth. Afterwards Hazrat Omar used to come to him and sit with him.