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In the Quran, Allah ﷻ presents quite the challenge;
وَءَاتَىٰكُم مِّن كُلِّ مَا سَأَلۡتُمُوهُۚ وَإِن تَعُدُّواْ نِعۡمَتَ ٱللَّهِ لَا تُحۡصُوهَآۗ إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ لَظَلُومٞ كَفَّارٞ
And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would not be able to enumerate them. Indeed humankind is truly unfair, ˹totally˺ ungrateful. (14:34)
You can never enumerate the blessings Allah ﷻ has given you. In fact, everything you asked for, Allah ﷻ has given it to you! To witness the truth of this verse, I decided to run a “social experiment” in our local youth group. Each child had to write the blessings they had in their lives, then pass the sheet on to the person next to them. Here is part 2 of a list of my observations from this task accompanied with some reflections on what I saw:
Observation 6
Being teenagers, it didn’t take long before silly items began to make it on the lists such as “Trump” and “Poop”. As the papers were passed round, the few laughs that came spurred more people to write silly things – though from the handwriting, it is clear it was the same few people.
By Talha GhannamIn the Quran, Allah ﷻ presents quite the challenge;
وَءَاتَىٰكُم مِّن كُلِّ مَا سَأَلۡتُمُوهُۚ وَإِن تَعُدُّواْ نِعۡمَتَ ٱللَّهِ لَا تُحۡصُوهَآۗ إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ لَظَلُومٞ كَفَّارٞ
And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would not be able to enumerate them. Indeed humankind is truly unfair, ˹totally˺ ungrateful. (14:34)
You can never enumerate the blessings Allah ﷻ has given you. In fact, everything you asked for, Allah ﷻ has given it to you! To witness the truth of this verse, I decided to run a “social experiment” in our local youth group. Each child had to write the blessings they had in their lives, then pass the sheet on to the person next to them. Here is part 2 of a list of my observations from this task accompanied with some reflections on what I saw:
Observation 6
Being teenagers, it didn’t take long before silly items began to make it on the lists such as “Trump” and “Poop”. As the papers were passed round, the few laughs that came spurred more people to write silly things – though from the handwriting, it is clear it was the same few people.