Remembrance of God

Gratefulness in the State of Ungratefulness relationship with God. At that time divine words of supplication and remembrance of God start pouring out of his lips. The name of such inspired divine words of prayer is rabbani prayer. Gratefulness in the State of Ungratefulness T he Quran tells the story of Adam and Iblis in detail. It explains how Iblis was deprived of God’s blessings because of his refusal to bow to Adam. At that time Iblis said to God: “Because you have put me in the wrong, I will lie in ambush for them on Your straight path: then I will surely come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right and from their left, and then You will find most of them ungrateful.” (7:16-17) In this verse, his being put in the wrong implies his being put to the test. What Iblis wanted to say was that under normal conditions, he was able to follow divine commands but the command of bowing to Adam was too hard a test for him to pass and, as a result he was distanced from God’s mercy. Then he expressed his intention of doing the same to all human beings until the majority failed in the test and took to the path of ungratefulness.