While praying to Allah for a blessing, one must also ask Him for the moral values with which to appreciate it

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There are innumerable blessings even in the lives of people living
under the most difficult conditions. However, most people, instead of
realizing these blessings,generally focus on deficiencies before all
else. They forget the existence of hundreds ofbeauties around them
and get saddened by those blessings they could not possess. They
consider themselves to be badly wronged and deprived of the best
things in the world. Theyspend almost all their lives pondering about
these missing things andthe grievance they experience. While
concentrating entirely on those, they remain unaware of the fact that
there are many blessingsaround them, which are created for them, at
every single moment.
Naturally everyone on earth would not be living under the exact same
circumstances. Someone may lack a blessing enjoyed by someone else.
One may be very healthy while another struggles against a disease. One
may be rich and anothermay be poor. In many aspects of life when the
blessings given are compared, they may be different from each other.
And in all these, there is much good and wisdom for everyone. But even
without considering such different circumstances, the blessings people
enjoy in general are so profuse that they should all rejoice at these
great blessings from Allah and be very happy.
Our Almighty Lord says that these blessings are innumerable, even just
in general terms:
If you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count them.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl, 18)
He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you tried to
number Allah's blessings, you could never count them. Man isindeed
wrongdoing, ungrateful. (Surah Ibrahim, 34)
And there is a great secret created by Allah behind all these
blessings. If one cannot see the delights he enjoys; cannot appreciate
the favor of Allah over him and is inclined to think only about
deficiencies, then he can never be happy. That is because if Allah
gives him even more blessings, even if He bestows all those blessings
he grieves overnot having, in just the form he would like themto be,
that person will still – because of the moral values he possesses –
see only what he lacks, and instead of being happy with what he has,
will grieve for what he does not. Because what this person actually
missing is not the blessings he does not possess, but rather the
ability to appreciate the mercy, love and blessings of Allah. So long
as he fails to attain profound moralvalues in that regard, even if all
the blessings in the world are bestowed on him, he will still be
unable to rejoice in these blessing.
Furthermore, someone who knows how to appreciate the blessings;who
feels the love of Allah in every beauty he sees, great or small; and
who is filled with joy because of the love of Allah; will be very
happy even if he is lives under the worst conditions in the world. No
worldly joy can replace the happiness that person enjoys. The joy and
peace that such a personexperiences never ends. Even if he faces
hundreds of troubles and destitutions, he will still experience the
spiritual excitement of the presence of one single blessing until the
end of his life. He gives his thanks to Allah with love and passion
for He is the One Who has created that blessing for him. He will
experience the joy of feeling the love, infinite kindness, mercy,
friendship, closeness and protectionof Allah even in that single
blessing. Even under the most difficult circumstances, he enjoysthe
beauty of knowing that Allah is with him, that He is closer to him
than his own jugular vein, that He will be his closest friend and will
never withhold His Help from him for as long as he is sincere.
Thinking that the existence of only this spiritual delightconstitutes
one of the biggest blessings created for him in this world, he gives
his thanks to Allah as much as he possibly can, in themost sincere and
candid manner.
Therefore, it is not the blessings themselves or their number that
will make a person happy. It is living by the moral values with which
to appreciate them. Unless one attains these moral values, it is
literally impossible for him to be made happy, in the true sense of
the word, by the existence of blessings. That is the secret imparted
by Allah in the Qur'an with the words: "And when your Lord announced:
'If you are grateful, I will certainly give you increase, but if you
are ungrateful, My punishment is severe'." (Surah Ibrahim, 7) That
secret is giving thanks for the blessings and living by the moral
values with which to appreciate them. Or else someone without faith
may also rejoice at blessings. Or a nonsane person may also be pleased
when he is given a present, something to eat or something to wear. But
that joy is merely a physical reaction obtained without the use of
reason, stemming from the person having acquired a worldly gain. True
joy is one that is experienced through love of Allah, with reason and
the consciousness of faith. That is why, when a believer looks at his
life he must reflect on whether he truly experienced that joy through
the blessings heenjoyed. If a person only experiences the physical joy
in the face of blessings, that means there is a serious gap in his
life that needs to be made good as a matter of urgency. Because this
may mean not giving proper thanks to Allah, failing to properly
appreciate blessings or even ingratitude for them. (Allah knows the
truth.) And a person's unhappiness despite all the countless blessings
at his disposal, his constantly seing deficiencies throughout his life
and grieving overthem, may be a punishment from Allah for this
ingratitude. Allahreminds people of this inthe Qur'an:
Remember Me – I will remember you. Give thanks to Me and do not be
ungrateful . (Surat al-Baqara, 152)
... When We let a man taste mercy from Us he exults in it. But if
something bad strikes him for what he has done he is ungrateful.
(Surat ash-Shura, 48)
That is how We repaid them for their ingratitude. Are any but the
ungrateful repaid like this ? (Surah Saba', 17)
Curse man for his ingratitude! (Surah 'Abasa, 17)
Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord and indeed he bears witness to
that. (Surat Al-'Adiyat, 6-7)
You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them.
Even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still
would not forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah and
His Messenger . Allah does not guide deviant people. (Surat
at-Tawba,80)
In fact, one can only eat so many meals a day; even if he wants to eat
more than 3-4 times a day, the body will not accept. Even if one has
hundreds of outfits and changes them all the time, one can still only
wear a certain amount of them in a day. If one had hundreds of homes
or cars, he can still only use one at a time. Even ifone could go
wherever one likes on holiday, onecan still only be in one place at a
time. Even if one never sleeps – whichis in itself impossible – one
can still only enjoy these blessings for 24 hours a day. Therefore,
the life of this world has not been created in sucha way that
happiness could be attained from worldly things themselves.
The joy in blessings that stems from love of Allah, on the other hand,
is a great blessing to be enjoyed forever under all conditions and at
every moment. And it is a huge privilege and a great blessing for a
person who attained such morality, to be able to see the signs of
Allah'slove wherever he looks. Because that is the source of a joy and
happiness that will never end. For that reason, rather than
concentrating on the presence or absence of ablessing, one should
rather reflect on whether or not he has managed to acquire this
understanding.