Enable me to be grateful for Thy favours...

Enable me to be grateful for Thy favours, which thou hast bestowed on me…” [^1] Then God’s Prophet (S) said, “Amin!” The same tradition was narrated by Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Imran ad-Daqqaq - may God be pleased with him, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Zakariya al-Qattan, on the authority of Abu Muhammad Bakr ibn Abdullah ibn Habeeb on the authority of Ahmad ibn al-Harith, on the authority of Abu Mo’awiya, on the authority of al-A’amesh, on the authority of Ja’far ibn Muhammad (as-Sadiq) (a.s.), on the authority of his father (a.s.), on the authority of his grandfather (a.s.), on the authority of his father (a.s.) that Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) said, “I had decided ثُمَّ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى سَحَابَةً بَيْضَاءَ فَقَطَرَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ لُؤْلُئِهَا وَزَبَرْجَدِهَا وَيَوَاقِيتِهَا وَقَامَتِ الْمَلائِكَةُ فَنَثَرَتْ مِنْ سُنْبُلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَقَرَنْفُلِهَا هَذَا مِمَّا نَثَرَتِ الْمَلائِكَةُ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى مَلَكاً مِنْ مَلائِكَةِ الْجَنَّةِ يُقَالُ لَهُ رَاحِيلُ وَلَيْسَ فِي الْمَلائِكَةِ أَبْلَغُ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ اخْطُبْ يَا رَاحِيلُ فَخَطَبَ ب