Seventh Word Proof For Patience And Reliance Weakness As A Document

As for the two medicines, one is trusting in Allah and patience, and the other is relying on the power of one's Creator and having confidence in His wisdom. Is that the case? Indeed it is. What fear can a man have, who, through the certificate of his impotence, relies on a Monarch of the World with the power to command: " كُنْ فَيَكُونُ 'Be!', and it is" (2:117; 36:82). For in the face of the worst calamity, he says: "Verily, to Allah do we belong, and verily to Him is our return" (2:156), and places his trust in his Most Compassionate Sustainer. A person with knowledge of Allah takes pleasure from impotence, from fear of Allah. Yes, there is pleasure in fear. If a twelve-month baby were sufficiently intelligent and it were asked him: "What is most pleasurable and sweetest for you?", he might well say: "To realize my powerlessness and helplessness, and fearing my mother's gentle smack to at the same time take refuge in her tender breast." But the compassion of all mothers is but a flash of the manifestation of divine mercy. It is for this reason that the wise have found such pleasure in impotence and fear of Allah, vehemently declaring themselves to be free of any strength and power, and have taken refuge in Allah through their powerlessness. They have made powerlessness and fear an intercessor for themselves.