💎The esteemed Shafi’ī scholar of Tafsīr and Fiqh, Badr al-Dīn Al-Zarkashi (d. 794 AH رحمه الله) said in the beginning of his book al Burhan:

وَقَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ:

Al-Shafi'i, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

جَمِيعُ مَا تَقُولُهُ الْأُمَّةُ شَرْحٌ لِلسُّنَّةِ وَجَمِيعُ السُّنَّةِ شَرْحٌ لِلْقُرْآنِ وَجَمِيعُ الْقُرْآنِ شَرْحُ أَسْمَاءِ اللَّهِ الْحُسْنَى وَصِفَاتِهِ الْعُلْيَا

"Everything the Ummah (i.e., its scholars) says is an explanation of the Sunnah, and all of the Sunnah is an explanation of the Qur'an, and all of the Qur'an is an explanation of Allah's Most Beautiful Names and His Supreme Attributes."

زَادَ غَيْرُهُ: وَجَمِيعُ الْأَسْمَاءِ الْحُسْنَى شَرْحٌ لِاسْمِهِ الْأَعْظَمِ وَكَمَا أَنَّهُ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ كُلِّ كَلَامٍ سِوَاهُ فَعُلُومُهُ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ كُلِّ عِلْمٍ عَدَاهُ

Another added: "And all the Most Beautiful Names are an explanation of His Greatest Name. And just as it is superior to all other speech, so His knowledge is superior to all other knowledge."

💎Don’t Downplay the Severity of a Hardship after Allah Removes It

🔘Bakr b. ‘Abdullah al-Muzanī (رحمه الله) said:

"يَنْزِلُ بِالْعَبْدِ الْأَمْرُ فَيَدْعُو فَيَصْرِفُهُ عَنْهُ، فَيَأْتِيهِ الشَّيْطَانُ فَيُضْعِفُ شُكْرَهُ، فَيَقُولُ: إِنَّ الْأَمْرَ كَانَ أَيْسَرَ مِمَّا تَذْهَبُ إِلَيْهِ،

"A matter descends upon a servant, so he supplicates, and it is diverted from him. Then, Satan comes and weakens his gratitude, saying: 'The matter was easier than you thought.'

قَالَ: وَيَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ: كَانَ الْأَمْرُ بِأَشَدَّ مِمَّا أَذْهَبُ إِلَيْهِ، وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ صَرَفَهُ عَنِّي "

[However] the servant [should] say: 'The matter was more severe than I perceived, but Allah diverted it from me.'"

📜Kitab al-Shukr Ibn Abi-l-Dunya (26).

💎Recognizing Allah’s Blessings by Recognizing Your Inability & Deficiency in Truly Realizing Them

🔘Muhammad b. Salih al-Tamimi (رحمه الله) narrated that some of the scholars, when reciting the verse,

{وَإِنْ تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا} [النحل: ١٨]

"And if you should count the favors of Allah, you could not enumerate them" [Surah An-Nahl: 18], would say:

«سُبْحَانَ مَنْ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ فِي أَحَدٍ مِنْ مَعْرِفَةِ نِعْمَتِهِ إِلَّا الْمَعْرِفَةَ بِالتَّقْصِيرِ عَنْ مَعْرِفَتِهَا، كَمَا لَمْ يَجْعَلْ فِي أَحَدٍ مِنْ إِدْرَاكِهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ أَنَّهُ لَا يُدْرِكُهُ،

"Glory be to Him who has placed in no one's recognition of His favors anything but the recognition of their inadequacy in truly appreciating them, just as He has not placed in anyone's comprehension of them more than the knowledge that they cannot fully comprehend Him.

فَجَعَلَ مَعْرِفَةَ نِعَمِهِ بِالتَّقْصِيرِ عَنْ مَعْرِفَتِهَا شُكْرًا، كَمَا شَكَرَ عِلْمَ الْعَالَمِينَ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُدْرِكُونَهُ فَجَعَلَهُ إِيمَانًا، عِلْمًا مِنْهُ أَنَّ الْعِبَادَ لَا يُجَاوِزُونَ ذَلِكَ»

Thus, He made the recognition of His favors carried out by the acknowledgement of our inability to fully recognize them an act of gratitude, just as He accepted the knowledge of the learned that they cannot fully comprehend Him and made it an act of faith, knowing that His servants cannot exceed this."

[Meaning that just as we cannot fully fathom and grasp the extent of Allah’s greatness and the perfection of His knowledge, power, wisdom, etc., then likewise we cannot fully grasp the extent of Allah’s favors and kindness; recognizing our inability to fully grasp this is an essential part of faith.]

Kitab al-Shukr Ibn Abi-l-Dunya (202).