6. Undoubtedly, man is ungrateful (6) to the Lord.
6. Here, a person suggests a negligent person or an infidel and not Prophets and Saints. Says Allah Almighty: "Are there very few in My bondsmen that are thankful?"(S34:V13) And regarding the Prophets it is said: "Most certainly he was a thankful servant"(S17.V3). What it means is that some out of ingratitude to Allah Almighty do not believe in Allah Almighty like the atheists and after believing in Allah Almighty regard His bounties to belong to someone else, like the polytheists, while some regard bounties as a creation of their own excellence and some do not ponder over these bounties as to why they have received these and what is the way of expressing gratitude for them. It should be remembered that in the entire creation most favours have been bestowed on man. It is him who is made the noblest creation. It is he who is made the master over all the creation who renders service to him. Prophets and Saints are born from
man.
The most ungrateful, too, is man. It is he who laid false claims to divinity and Prophethood. It is a man who had opposed the Prophets. Gratitude can be of the heart, of the tongue as well as of practice. Practical gratitude is of many kinds. All types of worship and service to mankind are kinds of practical gratitude. Similarly, ingratitude too is of the heart, verbal, practical, etc. Practical ingratitude is of many types. Of these some forms of ingratitude are infidelity, some are transgression. Ingratitude of the heart is one of e the worst forms of diseases whose physicians are the grateful persons. To be in their or company, to study their books and about their conditions, and to look at those below you in the world, to think about those above in e religion, and to think that the bounties of Allah the Almighty are not our possessions but a trust from Allah Almighty and to abuse as a breach of trust, etc. are the remedies of this disease.
