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Appreciate Blessings
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
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.”
BOOK TOPIC
- Excellence of sending salat upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- Appreciate Blessings
- Unique supplication for protection against sins
- Gratitude in adversity
- The rank of the patient
- Divine law governing the rise and fall of nations
- Gratitude of the bodily limbs
- Reason for calling Sayyiduna Nuh عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام عبداً شکورًا ‘a grateful bondsman’
- Nightlong mention of blessings
- The gratitude of Sayyiduna Hasan al-Basri رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه
- One of the 12 Madani Activites: ‘Tafsir Halaqah’
- Warnings against ingratitude
- Department of Pious Deeds
- Study gratitude
- Look at those below you in status
- Reflect on blessings
- Express gratitude through your limbs
- Be patient in adversity
- Sunnahs and etiquettes of musafahah (shaking hands) and mu’anaqah (embracing)
