Gratitude in Islam: A Cognitive and Spiritual System for Contentment, Peace, and Emotional Balance - Couverture souple

Rahman, Amina

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798176819731

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

You have blessings. You know this. So why does enough still feel so far away?

This is the question most people are too embarrassed to ask out loud — because the answer requires admitting something uncomfortable: that gratitude is not something that arrives automatically when life is good, and that the persistent sense of not quite enough is not a personal failing. It is the predictable result of a mind operating in an environment designed to generate dissatisfaction.

Gratitude in Islam is a warm, honest and spiritually grounded framework for developing shukr as a genuine, practiced orientation rather than an occasional feeling. Drawing on Quranic teaching and prophetic guidance, Amina Rahman explores why discontentment is so persistent, what produces it and what the Islamic tradition actually says about building a life of genuine contentment — without denying pain, suppressing ambition or performing a positivity that does not reach the heart.

At the heart of the book is the SHUKR framework: a five-part system for developing gratitude from the inside out.

S — See the blessing
H — Honour the source
U — Understand the test
K — Keep perspective
R — Respond with action

This is not a book about pretending life is perfect. It is a book about learning not to let what is imperfect blind you to what is genuinely, specifically and actually good — in your life, today, as it already is.

Inside you will find:

• Why more does not always feel like enough — and the psychological mechanisms behind persistent dissatisfaction
• How comparison, hedonic adaptation and scarcity thinking quietly erode the ability to feel what you have
• What shukr actually means in the Islamic tradition — and why it is far more than saying alhamdulillah
• The SHUKR framework applied to the specific areas where gratitude most commonly breaks down: relationships, money, appearance, ambition and difficulty
• How to remain grateful while honestly acknowledging disappointment, pain or unmet desire
• The spiritual practices of sabr, tawakkul and contentment that sustain gratitude over the long term

Whether you are navigating comparison, recovering from disappointment, struggling to feel present in your own life or simply looking to build a deeper and more genuine relationship with what Allah has given you.

Your life does not need to become perfect before gratitude becomes possible. It needs to be seen more clearly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798176819731
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg