Look at those below you in status

2) In order to inculcate a habit of gratitude, always observe those that are below you in status. Develop a mindset that I have so many blessings and favours bestowed upon me by Allah Almighty, whereas so-and-so is disabled, afflicted by illnesses, subject to anxieties and so-and-so does not own his own home, or car, or nice clothes and is even in need of others for two meals a day.

Reflect on blessings

3) In order to instil the practice of gratitude, reflect on the multitude of Allah Almighty’s bounties. He made us the most honoured of creation, made us from the Ummah of the beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, granted us affiliation to the Sahabah and the Ahl al-Bayt عَـلَيْهِمُ الرِّضْوَانْ, the pious predecessors, the scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah and our noble murshid, and for their sake, blessed us with this religious environment.

He granted us great blessings, such as the noble Qur’an, iman, blessed days and nights, blessed cities (such as Makkah al-Mukarramah and Madinah al-Munawwarah), masjids and religious seminaries and universities. He also gave us parents, brothers, sisters, limbs, intelligence, senses, air, water, soil, light, homes, work, cold, heat, seasons, the mountains, the Earth, the sky, the moon, the sun, sleep, health, crops, animals, plants, rain, day, night, etc.  If we do not receive a particular blessing, we forget all of these; we should never do this.

Express gratitude through your limbs

4) Apart from the tongue, we should also express gratitude through our other limbs, such as hands, feet, eyes, etc., by only carrying out permissible, rewardable acts through them. We should protect our limbs from impermissible, sinful, in fact, even frivolous actions. It is transmitted from Sayyiduna Ziyad رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, “One of the rights of Allah