Know, may Allah جل جلاله grant you success, that Allah جل جلاله has servants who have left tadbir with Allah through His educating and refining them with His courtesy, and through His knowledge that He taught them

Know, may Allah جل جلاله grant you success, that Allah جل جلاله has servants who have left tadbir with Allah through His educating and refining them with His courtesy, and through His knowledge that He taught them. So the divinely granted lights have abolished the resolutions of their tadbir, and their gnosis and secrets have caused the mountains of their personal volition to crumble. By that they came to occupy the degree of contentment (rida), and experienced the blissful delight in that station. Then they sought the aid of Allah جل جلاله ,crying out to Him, because they feared that the sweetness of contentment might preoccupy them, or cause them to incline towards it and repose in it. Shaykh Abu-l Hasan may Allah be pleased with him related the following story: "In the beginning of my career (as a Sufi), I would decide for myself which of the devotions and pious deeds I should perform. Sometimes I would say to myself, Go to the wilderness and the wastelands for retreat,' and at other times I would say,Go back to the cities and towns, to accompany the righteous and learned scholars.' Then a certain friend of the friends of Allah جل جلاله) awliya) was mentioned to me as living in a cave of a certain mountain, so I headed there and arrived at nightfall. I did not want to enter in without courtesy, so I stayed at the entrance. I then heard him say: "O Allah جل جلاله , verily some people have besought You that men should be brought in their presence and be subject to them, and they were satisfied with that from You. O Allah, I pray to You for their removal from me and for their shunning of me that I may have no refuge except in You." When I heard this I said to myself, 'O self, look to what sea this Shaykh takes from!' When morning came, I came in and greeted him, and questioned him about his state. He said, 'I complain to Allah جل جلاله about the coolness and sweetness of contentment and submission, as you complain from the heat of tadbir and choice.' So I said, 'As for my complaining against the heat of tadbir and choosing, I have tasted it and am now in it; but as for your complaining against the coolness of contentment, I do not comprehend that.' So he said, 'I fear that their sweetness might preoccupy me from Allah جل جلاله 'Then I said to him, 'I heard you yesterday saying such and such (and he repeated the supplication).' He then smiled, and said to me, `My son, instead of saying 'Cause the hearts of Your creatures to be submissive to me', say, 'Be for me, O Allah'. Do you imagine that if they (the creatures) are for you, that would make you independent in any way? What cowardice is this?"

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