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Attitude towards blessings
Believers who put aside their habitual views and observe their
environment will understand that everything they perceive is a bless-
ing from Allah. They will understand that everything—eyes, ears,
body, all the food they eat, the clean air they breathe, houses, goods
and property, the things they own and even micro-organisms and
stars—have been put at their service. And these blessings are too nu-
merous to count. As our Lord says in the following verse, it is not
even possible to classify and count all these blessings:
If you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count
them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl:
18)
A believer can legitimately use all the blessings
given to him in this world but he will never be de-
ceived by them and so forget to live without
thought for Allah, the afterlife or the teachings
of the Qur'an. No matter how many posses-
sions he has, prosperity, money, or power,
etc., they will never cause him to become
decadent or arrogant; in short, they
will never lead him to
abandon
the
teachings of
the Qur'an. He
is aware that all of
these things are blessings from
Allah and that if He wills, He can take
them back again. He is always aware that the
blessings of this world are transitory and lim-
ited, that they test him and that they are only re-
flections of the real blessings of the Garden.
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