{"id":17345,"date":"2021-03-01T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=17345"},"modified":"2021-03-01T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:17:27","slug":"the-gauge-to-determine-whether-a-favour-is-a-blessing-or-a-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=17345","title":{"rendered":"The gauge to determine whether a favour is a blessing or a trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17346 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/appreciation-art-design-gratitude.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/appreciation-art-design-gratitude.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/appreciation-art-design-gratitude-190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/appreciation-art-design-gratitude-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/appreciation-art-design-gratitude-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>If a person makes shukr to Allah Ta\u2018ala for the favours he enjoys (and he utilizes the favours in the obedience of Allah Ta\u2018ala), then this is a sign that the favours he enjoys are a blessing from the side of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon him (which will be a means for his progress). However, if he does not make shukr to Allah Ta\u2018ala for the favours, and the favours cause him to fall into negligence and forget Allah Ta\u2018ala, then this is a sign that the favours he enjoys are a trial and test from the side of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon him.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 14\/131)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned: If a person makes shukr to Allah Ta\u2018ala for the favours he enjoys (and he utilizes the favours in the obedience of Allah Ta\u2018ala), then this is a sign that the favours he enjoys are a blessing from the side of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon him (which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17345","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\/17345","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17348,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345\/revisions\/17348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}