Meaning Of Tawakul
You need Him and His pleasure, for that you need to first realise the path, the rope that takes you to His pleasure and obedience. And then after that, holding onto that rope in every circumstances till you’re alive. And THEN whatever happens is khayr. So you need to tie your camel i.e play your part and then leave the rest to Him because you remember Him, He will remember you.
And that punishing you will also become good for you, because you will ‘consider’ the possiblity of a punishment to begin with. You will know when you need to go through a trial and what that taught you. You repented, or learnt something out of it. Either way, a God fearing person will come out better just because He was introspective. That same punishment could leave another person, not on the path of God or not ‘fully’ on the path of God, even more rebellious and disappointed and even away from Him than before. So this is what the book of God teaches us. To be introspective, to look beyond the unseen of events. In the Quran, I will give you the reference, there is something very profound related to what you asked that what if its a punishment. The background is, the hypocrites started making fun of the believers that now where is the help of Allah that came in Badr? So they reply, even if we win this time that is also good and even if we lose (as a punishment for what some weak Muslims among us did) that is also good. Because in either case we are getting a chance to improve ourselves and get closer to Him. So its all about perception. A believer can look at and take lessons from a same event very differently than a worldly person.
Bhai this is a basic principle of belief that God can intervene in anything of course. So am i correct in saying tawakkul is being satisfied that ‘this is from God’ and that ‘God will do good’?
@AhmadShoaib an excellent explanation and example from the Quran. Do watch.