" True gratitude or shukr, is not based on your circumstance but based on the state of your spirit. Our gratitude does not make God more generous; rather, our gratitude makes us more receptive to receiving all that God continuously gives to us. Being in a state of gratitude is remembering that God loved us before we ever loved Him. When "

― A. Helwa , Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam