If You Are Grateful I Will Surely Increase You — The Law of Increase
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لَئِن شَكَرۡتُمۡ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمۡ
— إبراهيم 7
Verse: "If you are grateful I will surely increase you — and if you are ungrateful, My punishment is severe." (14:7)
An oath from Allah: "La-azidannakum" — the lam + nun of emphasis. Allah swore on increasing the grateful. Not an ordinary promise but a divine oath.
Increase is not always in money: Increase may come in faith, health, peace, blessing in time, knowledge, righteous children — every blessing increases with the gratitude of its owner.
Lesson: Gratitude is the key to more — ingratitude not only loses the blessing but enters its owner into the domain of warning.
Source: Ibn Kathir (4/482); Al-Sadi; Al-Qurtubi (9/336)
Question: In what form does the promised "increase" come for the grateful?
Answer: In everything — wealth, faith, health, blessing, time, offspring, and knowledge. The grateful person has their blessing increased by Allah in whatever form He wills.