Verbal Thankfulness
The Flowers Of Guidance Volume One Nine Instructive Steps to Gaining Knowledge Step 7: Happiness and Kindness
A joyful person proves to be thankful for the blessings of God, not through words, but actions, and not in appearance, but spirit. There are so many who thank God with their mouths, while their heart screams otherwise. As you may have seen many times when ordinary people see someone of great wealth, they sigh and mouth loud and audible thankfulness to God. This praise, even though a thanking in words, is not real. Instead, it is disbelief, demonstrating discontent, jealousy, greed, and stinginess to the blessing of others. Is it not?