Aslam

It is reported that Abu Torab Nokshibi said to a man who was about to eat the outer cover of water melon after remaining hungry for three days : Your Sufism has not come out to be true.
So stick to market. In other words, Sufism cannot be acquired without God-reliance and it cannot be purified unless one has got patience of forbearing the pangs of hunger for more than three days, The saint Abu Ali Rozbari said : When a poor man says after five days hunger, 1 am hungry tell him to earn it in markets.
He who is baffled in earning even after efforts is not deprived of his earning. Don't you look to the foetus in mother's womb that though it moves its naval chord keeps attached to its mother, so that it may take its food ? It is not made possible by the skill of the foetus. When it becomes separate, He makes its mother overflowed with affection for the child, so that she may maintain it. Then till the teeth of the child appears, He supplies its food from the breast of its mother. That does not require chewing, but the child suckles its mother's breast. Is it for the skill of the mother or of God ? When he becomes fit for chewing food teeth appear with which it chews food just like a mill. When he comes of age the causes of travelling in the next world become easy for him. God gave in the minds of the Muslims kindness for the poor.
Before this, only mother showed affection to the child but now there are hundreds to show him kindness. Before that they did not look at him as they found their parents maintaining him, When they find him bereft of parents, God enkindles in them the sense of charity. Nowhere was it seen that an orphan boy died of starvation although he had none to look after. God maintains him through the kind people and He also creates kindness in them.

A Poet says:

The pen of destiny runs always,

Movement and stay all equal,

Think of sustenance without our knowledge.

Who does supply foetus with food?

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