NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GOD

True Gratitude

MOST fathers dote on their children. They take great pleasure in bestowing material gifts to their children. Nowadays it is common to see some affluent fathers gifting their sons with cars. And on the car’s windshield or bumper would be some artwork or sticker with the message Gift from Dad.

This is no simple matter. In reality it is a message of ungratefulness. Taking a favour and blessing which is in reality given by God and attributing it not to God but to one’s own endeavours is a case of refuting God. And a failure to acknowledge God’s benevolence is the greatest sin in this world.

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A true believer considers everything as belonging to God alone and regards everything that he receives as a gift from God. He acknowledges God by attributing everything to Him.

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The Quran states that, when the Prophet Solomon received a worldly blessing he immediately said: Haza min fazli rabbi, which means, “This is by the grace of my Lord.” (27: 40) In other words, the Prophet acknowledged the apparently material blessing as a Gift from God. This is the only correct way of true faith.

A true believer considers everything as belonging to God alone and regards everything that he receives as a gift from God. He acknowledges God by attributing everything to Him.

Whatever people get in this world appears to be as a result of their own efforts. But this is only a superficial aspect of the matter. The fact is that every single thing is a blessing from God. It is a test of man for him to remove the veils that cover reality and discover the truth. For every blessing that he gets, he may say, ‘This is a gift from God given directly to me by God.’

Gratitude is the religious term for such acknowledgement. Only those who acknowledge God are truly grateful to Him.