465. Thankfulness Is Not Just One Day. It’s EVERY Day

By Asma bint Shameem 

Thankfulness to Allaah is not one random day of the year. 

Nor is it just to say ‘Alhamdulillaah’ absentmindedly with the tongue. 

Rather, TRUE Thankfulness has three parts:

1. It’s SAYING it with the tongue.  

2. And being CONTENT in the heart.  

3.And SHOWING it in your ACTIONS by USING your limbs and faculties, your eyes and ears, your hands and tongue, in OBEYING Allaah and keeping them away from all that’s displeasing to Him. 

THAT’S true Thankfulness 

THAT’s real Shukr. 

Shukr is a whole *ATTITUDE*. 

It’s a WAY OF LIFE. 

Ibn al-Qayyim said:

“Gratitude should be:

in the heart, in submission and humility; 

on the tongue, in praise and acknowledgement; 

and in the physical faculties, by means of obedience and submission.”

(Madaarij al-Saalikeen 2/246)

Al-Fudhayl ibn ‘Iyadh said: 

“Whoever *recognises* the bounties of Allaah from His *heart*, and thereupon thanks Allaah with his *tongue*, he would not *_finish_* thanking Allaah, except that he sees MORE (of Allaah’s bounties), for Allaah Ta’ala said: 

“If you be thankful, We will increase you (in bounty)” (Surah Ibrahim: 7)”

So be *TRULY* thankful to your Rabb....

Then watch your blessings grow...

Be *different* from the others. 

Don’t just thank Allaah *ONE day*. 

*Thank Him EVERY SINGLE DAY*.