The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The right to thank God from us is the increase from us in what God is thankful for from us ]

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So if a person thanks his Lord and sees gratitude and blessings from Him, then he has attained a praiseworthy quality and it is an act of worship. So whoever performs it in the sense that it is a special act of worship and it does not occur to him to thank him for the sake of more in terms of this act of worship, and he also seeks more knowledge as an act of worship that is commanded, then there will be a request for increase. Worship. As for other than that situation, it is not legitimate worship. If a person performs thanksgiving to the Lord of the blessings in its various parts without asking for an increase, it is as if he has abandoned what gives him thanks and what the nature of souls themselves requires of asking for increases in blessings. The fact that the truth is his hearing and sight does not prevent him from abandoning the request for the increase if it is the truth. He does not lack anything, for God has been characterized by being thankful and appreciative, and aski


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