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Know that if you were the true owner of yourself and your property, the fear of taking care of, protecting and owning would make your life miserable. Al-Mun’im, Who is Karîm, guarantees all the necessary ni’mahs for you. The only thing entrusted to you is to be blessed with, to enjoy the abundant ni’mahs on the table of His favours, and to offer shukr for them. Shukr increases the pleasure of ni’mah because it is to see the act of giving ni’mah within the ni’mah. Seeing the act of giving ni’mah removes the grief arising from the disappearance of ni’mah, as its disappearance ends not in non-existence; therefore, it will not give pain. It is to make room for the new ones, like fruits, and this gives the pleasure of renewal within ni’mah. وَ آخِرُ دَعْوَيهُمْ اَنِ الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ 1 indicates that the hamd itself is a pleasure.

The meaning and mystery of the hamd is to see the tree of the bestowal of ni’mah within the fruit of ni’mah. And this removes the pain from the thought of their disappearance and gives one pure pleasure within the hamd.