About Thanksgiving

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This time I will discuss an article about thanksgiving, which I quoted from one of the books. I think the book is good, the contents are interesting and when viewed from each page it doesn't make you bored 😊

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What is Thanksgiving?

How many forms of thanksgiving?

What are the benefits of Gratitude?

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1. First. What is Thanksgiving?

Gratitude comes from the words syakara, syukuran, wa syukuran, and ash-syukru, which means praise for goodness (favor) and thank you (to Allah). Gratitude also means revealing His blessings, both through speech and action.

In Sufism, thanksgiving is speech, attitude, and action as a form of gratitude to Allah SWT. and sincere confession of the blessings and gifts given by Him.

Gratitude given by Allah SWT. to humans there are many, and various kinds of forms, which are never separated from all everyday life and human activities, ranging from the pleasures of life, to the enjoyment of material, to health favors, and others.

But sometimes we as humans are not aware of that, so we must multiply our gratitude to God, so that the blessings given by God will increase.

2. Second. How many forms of gratitude are there?

In essence, everything God gives us must be grateful as an expression of gratitude. It is not because of a necessity of a servant of Allah alone, but more because the awareness of His pleasure. Why is that? Because gratitude will come back to us. That is, the benefit of being grateful is felt by someone who is grateful, as Allah says: "And whosoever is grateful, then indeed he is grateful for (good) himself, and whosoever is kufr (un grateful), then my Lord is Rich and Mighty Noble." (QS. An-Naml: 40)

For this reason, we are absolutely grateful for our own good. Because in gratitude, all of our body and soul are involved in it. The forms of gratitude are as follows:

a. Thank God

With the heart, humans realize and feel. With this heart humans carry out gratitude. Gratitude through this heart is realized by truly realizing that all the blessings that come from God alone. In turn, this kind of awareness leads people to accept, full of willingness without protest, let alone grumbling, at that favor. Gratitude with the heart always makes one instill good prejudice (husnudzan) in God in him.

b. Thank God with the Oral

We know, the expression or expression of what is felt by the heart, is done by speaking. This becomes absolute in gratitude. When the heart already knows the taste of pleasure from Him, the lali of pleasure is expressed through the saying of the throne. The word Alhamdulillah means recognition and praise to Allah.

c. Thank God for the Acts

Gratitude through the acknowledgment and belief in the blessings of Allah and then verbally, becomes complete when manifested by deeds. That is, God's pleasure is received and revealed to Him by doing something good. For example, by acting, helping others, not doing something deviant, not excessive in spending assets, and other good things.

3. Third. What are the benefits of Gratitude?

As mentioned earlier, the gratitude we offer to God is only for our own benefit. Anyone who is grateful, will always feel His pleasure, of course, if gratitude is done with awareness and servitude of God.

Awareness and servitude here is the attitude of always seeing something as a favor in our view a little. This awareness and servitude also means carrying out God's commands and avoiding His prohibitions. In short, obey God.

If you want to achieve true happiness, then you must obey God. And therefore, being grateful and never denying the blessings of Him becomes the foundation in living life.

Well, that's about gratitude in a nutshell, friend.

I recommend that you also read the book 😉👇

Quote from :

Work: Insan Nurrohiem
Title: Thank God for what is
Publisher: DIVA Press
Written by Alifvia Indah S.