believers or anyone else, “You are the needy toward God, and God is the One free of need, the Praiseworthy” [35:15].
Whatever things you need belong to Us and are in Our hands. What belongs to Us is sought only from Us. Need is therefore toward Us, rather than toward it, since it has no independence except through Us.
Trust has states by which one can be qualified and through which it is called trust. I have heard that someone of God's path said, in accordance with what we have indicated in this question, “We died without catching a scent of this trust.” For he requires its pervasion of the whole, because of the natural need within him. Trust is a station that admits division only metaphorically, and we are people of realities. Were it sound in one respect, as this claimant asserts, it would be sound in every respect.
It entails a claim, and its possessor is questioned; it has unveiling. Its degrees among the knowers are four hundred and eighty-seven, and among the People of Blame four hundred and fifty-six. It has relations to the whole world: visible kingdom, unseen dominion, and omnipotence.
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: On Leaving Trust
You are the vicegerent over what you possess,
while benefit and harm do not pertain to the Real.
Leaving trust is a state known
only to the Agent, to neither spirit nor human.
