Trust in God and tie your camel

 

According to 'Abu-Talib Makki', Moses related tales of how he learnt to widen his understanding from narrow assumptions to correct perspective.

Moses was ill, and he was offered various remedies to treat the sickness. But he refused, saying that God would help him instead. But God, it is related, commanded Moses to use medicines, saying:

'By refusing to accept the mission of the medicine, you have called into question the wisdom of him who endowed the remedies with their virtue!’

It is for this reason that there is a saying, 'Trust in God and tie your camel.’ If you were expected to do nothing, why is there such a thing as a camel-hobble?

'Hadrat Bahaudin Naqshband' of Bokhara has said, in this connection:

'If a withering leaf says by its appearance that it needs water and because you have the power to provide it you also have the duty to do so, these "words” of the leaf are the manifestation of the command of the creator of the leaf, and are addressed to you. If you insist upon a personal command from the Originator, ask why the means of communication has been placed before you. Is it there for you to neglect?’