Advice of Scholars - MAN MEANS NEEDY

Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî says in the 62nd letter of the second volume of his Maktûbât:

Man has been created so as to be civilized. In order to be civilized and live, he needs others. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the sixty-fourth âyat of Anfâl Sûra, “O my Prophet! Allâhu ta’âlâ and the Believers who are with you are sufficient for you!” Thus, He informs that the Believers are sufficient for helping the Best of Mankind. Hence, it is understood that it is necessary to help others. Rich people of our time think that being a dervish is not to need anybody else. It is a wrong understanding. Man means needy. Not only men but also all creatures are needy. In fact, man’s goodness, beauty, arises from his being needy. Also, man’s being a slave, his broken heart are the results of his being needy.

If man were not needy, he would be disobedient, excessive, unbridled. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the sûra of Iqra’, “When man is without any needs, for certain he will become excessive!” Those faqîrs who have freed their hearts from being attached to creatures, when they need to cling to causes express their needs to the Owner and Creator of the needs. When they get the causes, they know them to be from Him. They say that it is always He who sends or who does not send.

For many orders and benefits, Allâhu ta’âlâ creates everything through causes. He states that those who cause goodness are good and those who cause evil are evil. It is for this reason that the great superiors of this path have been thanking the causes or complaining about them. Outwardly, they have been deeming goodness and evil to be from the causes. If Allâhu ta’âlâ had created everything directly without any causes there would not be any order in the universe, everything would be all mixed up. O our Allah! Thou never creates anything corrupt or out of order!