This is how grateful servants enjoy their lives.
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Whenever we aren’t enjoying and aren’t happy we are being ungrateful. We should ask for God’s forgiveness because of all the moments when we haven’t been deeply happy. God and His angels don’t like a person who is not deeply happy. “Very few of My servants are grateful." [Qur’an, 34:13] [God says,] “Few of My servants are grateful.” The rest are low-spirited, depressed and sad.
I want to tell you a surprising tradition. It is said that the reward for thanking God for blessings is more than the reward for being patient in tragedies. We always think that being patient in tragedies is a very good thing to do. Let’s talk about some of the subjects that when the prophets talked about them, people mocked them.
I had gone to the seaside with one of God’s grateful servants. The waves of the sea would wash over his feet. He would say, “Please, please. Wait. Ok, ok.” He told me, “See how happy they are that we have come.” I knew you‘d laugh at how God’s grateful servants are! I told him, “But even when you aren’t here, they still come!” He replied, “They come after us and when they see we aren’t here, they go back.”
Grateful servants are happy for the blessings that are for everyone. Grateful servants don’t just become happy for the blessings that have only been given to them. They become happy for the blessings that God grants everyone as much as I, a selfish and arrogant person, become happy for the blessings that have been given to me. But a grateful servant becomes deeply happy when it rains since this is a blessing for all farmers, even if he is living in the city.
This is how grateful servants enjoy their lives. They aren’t only thankful for these general blessings. They are thankful for the blessings that God gave them in the past even though they hadn’t asked for them. It was God’s plan to grant them these blessings. They become happy for these blessings too. Interesting, right?
For example, have you seen how Aba Abdillah al-Husayn (as) thanks God in the Arafah Supplication? “God I thank You that You gave me eyes and all I needed in this world when I was in my mother’s womb. O God, how can I thank You?! Another thing to thank You for is that You made my mother kind to me. I was weak as a child and she took care of me. Then gradually You activated my senses. I see, taste, smell and walk. O God, how can I thank You?!” One is amazed when reading the Arafah Supplication! What blessings are you thankful for? [One replies,] “Do we need to be thankful for such blessings?!” We even feel God owes us!
Thankful servants thank for past blessings too. They think it’s their duty to say hello to the stars at night and to respond to their emotions. They say, “Hello stars. Thank you.” Such people believe in the verses of the Qur’an, the verses that say when they pass away, the heavens and the earth will cry for them. They have believed this! We don’t consider ourselves to be special. But grateful people have believed in God’s verses. They have believed in the verses where God says that when they pass away the heavens and the earth will cry for them. We don’t consider ourselves to be special. But this is how grateful servants enjoy their lives.
