Our companions differed regarding the increase that gratitude gives. Is it of the same type as that for which gratitude is given, or is it only from other blessings, or from both? The scholars consider it to be of the type for which one is thanked. And if it is not of its kind, then it is not of the type that gratitude necessitates. Rather, it is those blessings. From the beginning of grace, not from the gate of recompense, and among them are those who say that any blessing that occurs after thanksgiving is a reward and is an increase, and whatever blessings that do not occur after gratitude is from the essence of grace, but they said that because they do not know the relationship between the things that the Wise One, Glory be to Him, has chosen, and the people who say this intended to distance the truth from Rather, he gives whatever he wants without restriction, for the investigators are greater in knowledge than them, and these are more pure in appearance, and in meaning, all a