THE FORTY-THIRD DISCOURSE On censure of asking from any but Allah

Whoever asks anything from men does so only through his ignorance of God and weakness of faith and knowledge of reality, and lack of certainty and lack of patience; and whoever refrains from asking does so only through the abundance of his knowledge of God, the Mighty, the Glorious, and through the strength of his faith and of certainty, and through an incessant increase in his knowledge of God every moment, and his shyness from Him, the Mighty, the Glorious.