matter should be kept in mind that this principle is not specific to the disbelieving nations.

If the Muslims proceed on this same path, Allah Almighty removes the blessings He bestowed upon them, and they are left to face humiliation. Those who have knowledge of the causes of the rise and decline of the Muslims know well that as long as the Muslims expressed gratitude and fulfilled the right of the blessings bestowed upon them, they attained ranks of ascendency.^[1] 

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Gratitude of the bodily limbs

Sayyiduna Muhammad ibn Hani رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه relates from a friend of his that a man asked Sayyiduna Abu Hazim رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, “O Abu Hazim! What is the gratitude of the eyes?”

He replied, “Whatever good thing you see with them, you should publicise it, and whatever wrong thing you see through them, you should conceal it.”

The man enquired, “What is the gratitude of the ears?”

He answered, “If you hear a good matter through them, remember it, and if you hear something bad, conceal it.”

The man questioned, “What is the gratitude of the hands?”

He declared, “Do not acquire with them such a thing (for example, haram wealth, etc.) which is impermissible for you, and whatever right of Allah Almighty is linked to them (such as obligatory charity), do not withhold it.”