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 THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Arba'a, 8th day of Rabeeu ath-thaani 1444AH (Wednesday 2nd November. 2022). ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL TO ALLAH OR NOT?. BismilLah. 


Gratitude (shukr) is about expressing thanks and appreciation to those who do any favor to us. Obviously, none can come close to our Creator, ALLAH, who gave us everything. As the Quran states: “Who CREATED you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion” [Infitar 82:7]. As humans, ALLAH has bestowed on us the nature to be grateful and we should thus express that gratitude not just to ALLAH but to the people whom we deal with as well. In many places in the Quran, ALLAH divides people as being grateful and as ungrateful to motivate us to join the camp of those who are grateful. In one of such verses, ALLAH says, “. . . And whoever is grateful, truly, his gratitude is for (the good of) his own self, and whoever is ungrateful, (he is ungrateful only for the loss of his own self). Certainly! ALLAH is Rich (Free of all wants), Bountiful” [An-Naml: 40]. So from the above we know ALLAH has grouped believers who are grateful and those who are ungrateful and we must strive to be within the group who are grateful.


Gratitude is knowing that whatever we have is from ALLAH as such spend some for HIS sake. Gratitude helps us focus our minds on ALLAH, something that has unfortunately become so difficult today on account of life’s distractions and attractions. Gratitude, therefore, corrects our perceptions by reminding us that everything that happens to us doesn’t happen because of its own volition and thus we shouldn’t take matters for “granted”. ALLAH says in the Quran: “And whatever of blessings and good things you have, it is from ALLAH ” [al-Nahl 16:53]. 


May ALLAH keeps guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.

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