70لَو نَشاءُ جَعَلناهُ أُجاجًا فَلَولا تَشكُرونَAli UnalIf We so willed, We would make it bitter and salty. Then, should you not give thanks?1Whatever God grants us is pure blessing and grace. So we must always be thankful to Him, and if He sometimes grants us less than our need, or even deprives us of our necessary provisions, we must never complain about Him; rather, we must complain to Him of our own selves. God may sometimes grant less in order to test us, and sometimes to remind us of the importance of His provision for us— that it is He Who provides for us. It even sometimes occurs that He grants us less to punish us for our sins that have caused this deprivation, and/or to warn us to repent and mend our ways. So whatever He decrees for us is for our own good, therefore requiring thanksgiving.