✨What is true gratitude?
Ibn Qayyim Rahimahullah said:
“Gratitude is built upon 5 principles;
1. The submission of the grateful to the one he is grateful to (Allah).
2. Loving the one you are grateful to (Allah).
3. Acknowledging the blessing.
4. Praising him (Allah) for the blessing.
5. Not to misuse it in what displeases him (Allah).
These 5 principles are the foundations of gratitude and what it is built upon, whenever one of them is missing, one of the principles of gratitude is missing, and everyone who has spoken about the definition of gratitude goes back to these 5 principles.”
مدارج السالكين (2/244-246)