The profundity of the verse from the Qur’an that says that if you are grateful, Allah will increase you, resonates strongly through every theme of life.
It is through gratitude that good is created, harm is kept at bay, and we are connected to what feeds our soul.
Therefore, what destroys good must be the opposite of gratitude.
It’s easy to call it ingratitude, but not so easy to identify it as that.
Ingratitude is not just the absence of gratitude, it’s the presence of everything that denies it.
It is the desire for that which undermines the good that we have, or pursuing that which we haven’t earned.
It is the betrayal of what we stand for, to feed the fear of losing something that was never real.
It the compromise of the authenticity of who we are, so that we may be accepted by another, because we can’t bear the thought of being alone with only our self-respect to keep us company.
Dishonesty is a denial of the self, long before it is a betrayal of trust.
That’s why it breathes destruction wherever it shows up, because it first destroys the self which then destroys the world around us because we grow desperate for others to make us feel whole.
All that because we were ungrateful for who we are.
Dishonesty is the enemy of dignity, and without dignity, the world will be at war with your soul.
“If you are grateful, I will surely increase you.” (Qur’an 14:7)
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Dishonesty, the destroyer
