heart is for knowledge and love of Him; the tongue is for thanking and praising Him; and the limbs are to be used in obeying the One Who is being thanked, and in holding back from committing disobedient acts. Allah, Glorious and Exalted is He, has liked gratitude with belief. He says that He does not need to punish His creatures if they thank Him and believe in Him. He says; "What has Allah to do with punishing you, if you are grateful and you belive?" (4:147) The Glorious and Mighty also says that the people who are grateful are singled out from the rest of His servants because of the mercy that He displays towards them. The Mighty and Glorious says: "And thus We test some of them by means of others, so that they say, ' Are these the ones whom Allah has favored from amongst us?' Is not Allah best aware of thos who give thanks?" (6:53) He divides people into those who are grateful and those who are ungrateful; and the most displeasing thing to Him is ingratitude and its people; and the most precious thing to Him is gratitude and its people: "Surely we have shown him the way, whether he is grateful or ungrateful." (76:3) And: "And when your Lord proclaimed: "If you are thankful, I will give you more, but if you are ungrateful, then surely My punishment is terrible indeed." (14:7) In these ayat, Allah makes the granting of more blessing conditional