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their two gardens, Allah gave to them two gardens yielding bitter fruit and (growing) tamarisk and a few lote?trees. 'This We requited them with because they disbelieved; and We do not punish any but the ungrateful.' 215
"When the people of Tharthar were given great graces, they baked the core of wheat and used it for cleaning their babies from feces. That bread was put on each other until it took the form of a high mountain. As a man passed by a woman who was using that bread for the same purpose, he said, 'Woe to you! Fear Allah and do not cause your graces to be eradicated and taken away from you.' She answered, 'Are you threatening us with starvation? As long as our lake is flowing, we do not fear famine.' Allah did not accept so; therefore, He blocked their lake and stopped rainfall and planting. They, first, consumed all that which they had stored. Then, they had to consume that mountain of bread to the degree that it was distributed among them by measure." 216
Imam ar-Rida narrated on the authority of his fathers that the Prophet (s) said: "The quickest in punishment is ingratitude." 217
How to Acquire Thankfulness?
To acquire thankfulness, it is recommended:
(1) To ponder over the great variety of graces, good turns, and acts of kindness that God has conferred.
(2) To neglect considering the luxurious people who enjoy excessive means of living and false pleasures of this world, and to look at the miserable people as well as those who are in less levels of livelihood. Amir ul-Mu'minin (a) said:
"Try to look very frequently at those who are less than you are in the levels of livelihood, for this is a sort of showing gratitude." 218
(3) To keep in mind the calamities from which God has saved and the diseases that God has changed into
