if human beings are permitted only what they strictly require to survive, then they are reduced to the state of beasts. But while animals are made to survive, humans are made to live — and living life necessarily entails building and enjoying that which goes beyond of pure need.
God understandably loved Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for their righteousness, yet He inexplicably chose all the descendants of one of those three individuals as His people, “And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them
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We are in a situation where we have God's blessings that we cannot count, despite the fact that we sin. So we don't know what to give shukr for. Is it for the beautiful things that have occurred (blessings) or is it for the ugly things He has hidden ( our sins from people)
It is not the Qur’an we memorize that “keeps” us religious, nor the “Islamic facts” in our head, nor the eloquence of our tongues and pens, nor the outward religiosity that people see—rather, it is al-Jabbār.