7. IF YOU COUNT THE BOUNTIES OF ALLAH YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO
The more I observe the bounties that Allah keeps bestowing upon me, the more I find myself struggling to find the appropriate way to express my gratitude and thankfulness (shukr).
I know that thanking Allah per se, is one of the bounties of Allah upon His slaves but still I do not know how to thank Him for all that He bestowed upon me!
I admit my shortcomings and acknowledge that I have not fulfilled His rights upon me, so I hope my acknowledgment will be a means whereby I could fulfil some of His rights upon me.
I have a characteristic that I hope because of which, I receive all goodness, that is: while the one who prays or fasts thinks he accomplished his worship or fulfilled all the rights to One whom he is serving— I see that when I pray two rak’ab, I have actually prayed to save myself because the One whom we all serve does not need my service.
Some of the scholars used to remind people that the Prophet said, “Supplication is worship” and I say worship is supplication.
I thus wonder at those who stand to pray at night asking Him for their needs and yet believe they are worshipping their Lord while, in fact, they take the means whereby their needs are granted to them because of His grace to wake them up at night by itself is a grace their worship cannot match.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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