Joy at Sudden Disappointment

From Chapter 15: TEACHING STORIES
Book III, Verses 3204-3265
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The explanation that God Almighty created everything, from the heavens and the earth to entities and attributes, in response to needs. One must make oneself needy for Him to give, for "He who answers the distressed when he calls upon Him" is a testament to deservingness.
That was Mary's need and pain, which made such a child begin to speak.
A part of him spoke for him and about him, a part of your part has a hidden message.
Hands and feet will testify for you, O traveler, how long will you deny the evidence of hands and feet?
If you are not deserving of explanation and speech, the speaker's speech will see you and fall silent.
Everything that grows, grows for the needy, so that a seeker may find what he seeks.
If God Almighty created the heavens, it was to fulfill needs.
Wherever there is pain, a remedy goes there; wherever there is poverty, provision goes there.
Wherever there is a problem, an answer goes there; wherever there is a ship, water goes there.
Do not seek little water, bring thirst to hand, so that water may gush from high and low.
Until the delicate-throated child is born, how can milk flow from the breast?
Go to these highs and lows, so you become thirsty and capture the heat.
After that, the sound of the air's bee, the sound of the stream's water, you will drink, O wise one.
Your need is no less than the grass's, you take the water towards it, pulling it.
You take the water, pulling it towards the dry crop, so it finds happiness.
Pull the crop of the soul, for hidden jewels are there, the cloud of mercy is full of the water of Kausar.
Until the call comes, "Their Lord will give them to drink," be thirsty, God knows best.
The coming of that unbelieving woman with a nursing child to the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the child speaking like Jesus by the miracles of the Messenger, peace be upon him.
From that village, a woman from the unbelievers ran to the Prophet for a test.
She came to the Prophet with a hangover, a two-month-old child in her arms.
The child said, "Peace be upon you, O Messenger of God, we have come to you."
His mother angrily said, "Hey, be quiet, who put this testimony in your ear?"
"Who taught you this, O little child, that your tongue became eloquent in childhood?"
He said, "God taught me, then Gabriel, in explanation, I reached Gabriel."
She said, "Where?" He said, "Above your head, don't you see? Look up."
"Gabriel is standing over you, giving me a hundred kinds of evidence."
She said, "Do you see?" He said, "Yes, shining above you like a full moon."
"He teaches me the description of the Messenger, freeing me from this lowliness."
Then the Messenger said, "O nursing child, what is your name? Tell me and be obedient."
He said, "My name before God is Abdul Aziz, Abdul Uzza before this handful of people."
"I am pure and free from Uzza, by the truth of the one who gave you this prophethood."
A two-month-old child, like a full moon, spoke maturely like the companions of the chest.
Then the perfume from paradise arrived, so the child and mother's noses inhaled.
Both said, "From fear of falling, we would give our lives for this scent of perfume."
Whoever has the knowledge of God, his name is solid, and a hundred truths strike him.
Whoever God protects, birds and fish become his guardians.
The eagle snatching the Prophet's shoe and taking it into the air, turning it upside down, and a black snake falling from the shoe.
They were in this state when the Prophet heard a call from above.
He asked for water and refreshed his ablution, washing his hands and face with that cold water.
He washed both feet and decided on the shoe, a shoe thief snatched it.
The eagle snatched the shoe from his hand, taking it into the air like the wind.
Then it turned it upside down, and a snake fell from it.
A black snake fell from the shoe, from that grace, the eagle became his well-wisher.
Then the eagle brought back the shoe, saying, "Here, take it and go to prayer."
Out of necessity, I made this bold move, I have a broken branch from etiquette.
Woe to him who steps boldly without necessity, whom the air gives a fatwa.
Then the Messenger thanked him and said, "We saw this injustice, and it was indeed loyalty."
"You snatched the shoe, and I became distressed, you took my sorrow, and I became sorrowful."
"Although God showed us every unseen, at that moment, the heart was occupied with itself."
He said, "Far from you that negligence grew in you, seeing that unseen is also your reflection."
"See the reflection of everyone, O soul, sit beside the kind you desire."
The lesson to be taken from this story and knowing for certain that with hardship comes ease.
This story is a lesson for you, O soul, so that you are content with God's decree.
So that you are wise and have good thoughts when you suddenly see a bad event.
Others turn pale from fear of it, you, like a flower, smile in times of profit and loss.
For if you tear the flower petal by petal, it does not stop smiling, it does not become bent.
It says, "Why should I fall into sorrow from thorns? I have brought laughter from thorns myself."
Whatever is taken from you by fate, know for certain that it has saved you from calamity.
What is Sufism? It is finding joy in hardship when distress comes.
Consider that eagle as an eagle that snatched the shoe from that good-natured one.
To save his foot from the snake's bite, O blessed is the mind that is without dust.
He said, "Do not grieve over what has passed you by, if the wolf comes and takes your sheep."

Barks Interpretation

Whatever comes, comes from a need,