اعْمَلُوا آلَ دَاوُودَ شُكْراً ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Do good, O family of Dawūd, in thankfulness. (Qur'ān 34:13)
According to Al-Qurṭubī, the reality of Shukr (gratitude) is that one admits that his blessing has been bestowed by such and such giver and then goes on to use it in consonance with the spirit of his pleasure and in obedience to him. Therefore, using the blessing bestowed by someone counter to his pleasure is ungratefulness and a virtual denial of that blessing. This tells us that the way gratefulness can be in words, it can also be expressed by acts. When expressed by acts, it would mean the use of that blessing in accordance with the pleasure of the giver and in obedience to him.
Abū ʿAbdur Raḥmān As-Sulamī has said that Ṣalāh is gratitude, fasting is gratitude, and every good deed is gratitude. And Muḥammad Ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī says that gratitude is the name of piety and righteous conduct. (Ibn Kathīr)
[Maʿāriful Qur'ān Volume 7, Page 280]
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