Fourth: Thankfulness

The slave must thank his Lord for His bounties that cannot be counted, and he should do his best to accomplish this. This should be done with his heart and tongue to try to reach the appropriate form of thankfulness. He must thank Him too for all the bounties that is given to him by the creatures and thank the creatures as well because they have an obvious hand in his benefit. However, thanking Allah, exalted be He, for this, is a obligation. He must thank his Lord for the pains and sorrows that He uses to test him with, as it contains too many benefits in the next life to be imagined because of its greatness and abundance. The conclusion is that thanking Allah is an obligation whether in secret or in public, in time of happiness and in time of pain and sorrows, in time of distress or in the time of well-being and in every condition from the conditions. Therefore, thanks and praise is to Allah, as so or even more than that, and even many times as much as he likes and is satisfied with. Because He, exalted and most high be He, merits the said actions, which cannot be counted except by Him.

 Also, we should thank the benefactor who treated us well, and granted us a religious bounty or a mundane bounty. And from them are: our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his progeny; our Imams, may Allah grant them peace; our sheikhs; our parents and our brothers; and from the rest of the people. Therefore, we have to thank the said benefactor and ask Allah to reward him/her with the best reward, because of what s/he did to us. We should also ask Allah to reward him/her with the most complete bounties and charities because of his/her beneficence to us.