throughout our lives. If our hearts needed rest at certain intervals, as do
engines, we would certainly die. But hearts beat unceasingly for decades
without rest and enable us to live.
Allah created eyes to see, ears to hear, noses to smell and tongues
to taste. These are only a few of the blessings Allah has given us. We
cannot count all the blessings Allah gives us. In one verse, Allah, Who is
very merciful to us, addresses us as follows:
He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you
tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count them.
Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful. (Surah Ibrahim: 34)
As you have also understood from the Qur'an, being ungrateful for
these blessings, forgetting that all blessings are from Allah and not
thanking Him for everything He has done for us, is wicked behaviour.
Allah does not love those who are ungrateful.
In return for His blessings, Allah only wants us to love Him, and to
be grateful to Him, that is, to thank Him. His command is related in the
verse as follows:
Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing
nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and hearts so that
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