{"id":14008,"date":"2019-09-23T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14008"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:38:14","slug":"being-appreciative-to-allah-taala-for-the-bounty-of-sustenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14008","title":{"rendered":"Being appreciative to Allah Ta\u2018ala for the bounty of sustenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alhamdulillah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14009\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alhamdulillah-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alhamdulillah-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alhamdulillah-190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alhamdulillah.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Acquiring sustenance is not based on one\u2019s intelligence, but rather it is based entirely on the grace of Allah Ta\u2018ala. There are thousands of people in the world who are not intelligent, yet they are blessed with much more sustenance than those who are intelligent. Allah Ta\u2018ala says in the Qur\u2019aan Majeed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Traditional Arabic'; font-size: 16pt;\">\u0627\u064e\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064f \u06cc\u064e\u0628\u0652\u0633\u064f\u0637\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u0650\u0632\u0652\u0642\u064e \u0644\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u06cc\u0651\u064e\u0634\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064f \u0648\u064e\u06cc\u064e\u0642\u0652\u062f\u0650\u0631\u064f<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Allah Ta\u2018ala expands (increases) sustenance for whomsoever He wishes, and restricts (sustenance for whomsoever He wishes).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From this aayah, we understand that sustenance is the sole prerogative of Allah Ta\u2018ala. He deals with His servants in the manner He wishes. Therefore, if Allah Ta\u2018ala blesses one with sustenance, he should remain grateful to Allah Ta\u2018ala at all times for this great favour and never show any ingratitude.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 5\/261)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned: Acquiring sustenance is not based on one\u2019s intelligence, but rather it is based entirely on the grace of Allah Ta\u2018ala. There are thousands of people in the world who are not intelligent, yet they are blessed with much more sustenance than those who are intelligent. Allah &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-thaanwi-rahmatullahi-alaihii","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14011,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions\/14011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}