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They couldn’t do even one-thousandth of the thanks<br />

Thou deserve.<br />

Everybody knows that he who does favours should be<br />

thanked. It is a requirement of being human. Those who do<br />

favours are respected. Generous people are deemed great.<br />

Then, it is a requirement of being a human to thank Allahu<br />

ta’âlâ, who is the real owner of every blessing. It is a duty, a<br />

debt, which the mind necessitates. However, since Allahu ta’âlâ<br />

is free from any defect or fault, while men are smeared with the<br />

taint of defects and with the stains of deficiency, they do not<br />

have any relationship with Him. They cannot understand how<br />

great He is or how to thank Him accordingly. Methods which<br />

they think of as beautiful and use to describe Him may be<br />

loathsome to Him. What they think appropriate as a way of<br />

lauding and praising Him may, in fact, insult and belittle Him.<br />

Unless He dictates the means by which He should be praised<br />

and thanked, other ways cannot be trusted as being worthy of<br />

Him, nor can they be acceptable ways of worshipping Him. A<br />

way that a man chooses to thank Him may actually be a form of<br />

slander. Therefore, the religions and sharî’ats which have been<br />

communicated by His prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawatu wa-ttaslîmât’<br />

reveal how He should be praised, respected and<br />

thanked. Ways of respecting Him through the heart are<br />

communicated in the religion, and the thanks that are rendered<br />

to Him by the tongue are, again shown there. Religions explain<br />

clearly and in detail the actions which every organ will do. Then,<br />

thanking Allahu ta’âlâ by believing with the heart while the body<br />

does certain actions is possible only by adapting oneself to the<br />

religion. The reverence and the worship that is rendered to<br />

Allahu ta’âlâ outside the religion cannot be depended upon.<br />

They usually are done in a form contrary to His wishes and<br />

what is thought of as a blessing turns out to be a sin. As it is<br />

understood from these words, following the religion is a<br />

requirement of being a human and is something which the mind<br />

approves and likes. Allahu ta’âlâ cannot be thanked outside His<br />

religion.<br />

Each religion which Allahu ta’âlâ declared is of two parts:<br />

i’tiqâd (belief) and ’amal (worship); that is, îmân and rules. Of<br />

them, i’tiqâd is the same in every religion. I’tiqâd is the essence<br />

and the basis of the religion. It is the trunk of the tree of the<br />

religion. And ’amal is like the branches and leaves of the tree.<br />

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