How the lion upheld the superiority of exertion and acquisition to trust in God and resignation.

“Yes,” he said; “(but) if trust in God is the (true) guide, (yet use of) the means too is the Prophet's rule (Sunna).

The Prophet said with a loud voice, ‘While trusting in God bind the knee of thy camel.’

Hearken to the signification of ‘The earner (worker) is beloved of God’: through trusting in God do not become neglectful as to the (ways and) means.”