The 71-72th Syarah Wisdom – Syarah al-Hikam

 

71-72th WISDOM OF WISDOM,AL-HIKAM

"Nothing can lead you (to disgrace) like wishful thinking [an empty shadow]."

Wahm: It is every wishful thinking about something other than Allah, which means a dream that is impossible to happen. And usually lust is more subject to wahm / wishful thinking, than to reason. For example: humans usually run when they see a snake, because he thinks the snake will bite him. If he (his lust) submits to his mind, of course he does not run. Because what Allah has determined must exist, and vice versa.

Remember that no one can be saved from greed, except for special people, namely those who are experts in Qona'ah and surrender to Allah, whose hearts do not depend on creatures (humans).

٭ أنْتَ حُرُّمِمَّا اَنتَ عَنْهُ أيِسٌ وَعَبْد ٌ لمَا اَنتَ لهُ طاَمعُ ٭

"You are free from everything you don't need, and you are still a slave to what you want."

This wisdom shows the contempt of greed, and the good of Qona'ah.

If there were no false desires and greed, surely people would be free and would not be enslaved by something worthless.

العبد حرّماقنع ٭ والحرُّعبد ٌماطمع

The slave is free as long as he receives a share from Allah (Qona'ah) * The free person becomes a slave while he is greedy.

Qona'ah, namely: peace of mind because of the absence of something that is used to exist. And qona'ah is the beginning of zuhud.

A saga:

The eagle [eagle] that flies high in the sky, it is difficult for people to catch it, but it saw a piece of meat hanging on a trap, so it came down from the sky because of its greedy nature, then it got stuck in that trap until it became little children's games.

Fateh al-Maushily when asked about the example of a person who obeys his lust and greed, while not far from that place there were two children eating bread, one only ate bread, while the other ate bread with cheese, then the one who ate bread wants cheese, so he said to his friend:

"Give me cheese." His friend answered: "If you like to be my dog, I'll give you cheese".

Answer the child who asked: 'Okay'.

So his neck was tied with a rope like a dog and led.

Said Fateh to the questioner: "If the child had not been greedy for cheese, he would not have become a dog".

One incident, there was a student visited by his teacher, so he wanted to entertain his teacher, so he took out bread without side dishes, and was moved in the student's heart if there were side dishes it would be more perfect. And after the teacher finished eating what was served, the teacher stood up and asked the student out suddenly he was taken to the prison to be shown the various kinds of people who were punished, both those who were stoned or had their hands cut off and others, then the teacher said to disciple:

All those people that you see, namely people who can't wait to eat bread without side dishes.

There was a man who had just been released from prison, whose feet were still tied with chains and he begged someone for a piece of bread, so the person he was asking for said:

If you had always accepted a loaf of bread, your feet would not have been bound.

In another story it is told:

Someone saw a judge eating fruit that fell into the river, so the person said, 'O father judge, if you wanted to work for His Majesty the King, you would not have eaten the fruit that fell into the river.

Then the judge answered:

If you like to accept this food, there is no need to be the King's slave.