' Trust in God '...

"If you trusted in God as you should,

He would sustain you even as He sustains the birds,

which in the morning go forth hungry,

and return in the evening filled."



Prophet Muhammad
Bukari, al-Sahih, Riqaq, n. 463
quoted in Suleyman Derin
From Rabi`a to Ibn al-Farid Towards Some Paradigms of the Sufi Conception of Love
Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies The University of Leeds, 1999