The response to asking Allah for guidance manifests in innumerable ways, beyond human comprehension. However Allah’s first and most important description regarding Himself isAr Rahman, the Most Kind. So everything that one experiences carries this manifestation and our purpose in each experience is to seek guidance from it. To learn about Allah through it and to find “ourself ” in it by navigating our emotions and feelings.
Since gratitude is the foundation of a believers existence, we are not always able to understand or appreciate it from a purely intellectual dimension. Understanding gratitude through life’s experiences is like taking a 2D picture to 3D . Only the one who sees both , truly appreciates it.
Health is too often taken for granted, but in reality only a taste of sickness generates true gratitude. As a wise saying captures the essence of good health:
“Health is a crown on the heads of people that only sick people can see.”
In this manner, a sick person can benefit from being grateful to Allah for a knowledge he could not otherwise acquire! And to be aware that there are people who are more sick than yourself since physical diseases one treats with a doctor, but spiritual diseases ,which blind one from His Lord , can only be treated through the guidance of the Quran.
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