Ash Shakoor
The Rewarder of Thankfulness
The Appreciative, who rewards the small deed with an unbounded return.
Ash-Shakoor notices what everyone else overlooks: the private tear, the discreet charity, the prayer no one saw, the tongue that held itself back once. He not only records these; He appreciates them, and appreciation from Allah means multiplication without measure.
Mentions of Ash Shakoor
From the Quran & Hadith
From the root shin-kaf-ra (ش ك ر), which carries the classical Arabic connotations of thanking and being grateful, appreciating and acknowledging, and, in its classical usage, of an animal that fattens on little fodder: producing much from little. That old image is the heart of the Name: Ash-Shakoor takes the little we offer and returns it multiplied beyond any proportion.
A trade that cannot lose
The Quran describes dealing with Ash-Shakoor as commerce with a guaranteed profit: 'Indeed, those who recite the Book of Allah and establish prayer and spend out of what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, can expect a transaction that will never perish, that He may give them in full their rewards and increase for them of His bounty. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Appreciative' (Quran 35:29-30). Forgiving and Appreciative, together: He erases the bad and multiplies the good, both sides of the ledger tilted in the servant's favour.
The people of Paradise name this Name
When the believers enter the everlasting home, the Quran records what they say: 'Praise to Allah, who has removed from us all sorrow. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative, who has settled us in the home of duration out of His bounty' (Quran 35:34-35). From inside Paradise, looking back at lives of stumbling effort, the summary they choose is these two Names: He forgave what we broke and appreciated what little we brought.
Li-yuwaffiyahum ujūrahum wa yazīdahum min faḍlih. Innahu Ghafūrun Shakūr.
“That He may give them in full their rewards and increase for them of His bounty. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Appreciative.”
Wa qālu-l-ḥamdu lillāhi-lladhī adh-haba ʿanna-l-ḥazan. Inna rabbanā la-Ghafūrun Shakūr.
“And they will say, Praise to Allah, who has removed from us all sorrow. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative.”
In tuqriḍu-llāha qarḍan ḥasanan yuḍāʿifhu lakum wa yaghfir lakum. Wa-llāhu Shakūrun Ḥalīm.
“If you loan Allah a goodly loan, He will multiply it for you and forgive you. And Allah is Appreciative and Forbearing.”
Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'He who does not thank the people has not thanked Allah.'
We live starved of appreciation: work goes uncredited, kindness gets taken for granted, effort disappears into silence. Ash-Shakoor is the cure for the exhaustion that follows. Every atom of good you have ever done sits appreciated in full, awaiting a multiplied return; nothing was wasted, not one unnoticed sacrifice. The Name also assigns homework in both directions. Toward Allah: be a grateful servant, for He loves gratitude and increases those who practice it. Toward people: thank them, by the Prophet's ﷺ own rule, whoever does not thank people has not thanked Allah. Appreciation is the character of the One you worship; let it become yours, generously and specifically, starting with the people closest to you who hear it least.
Rabbi awziʿnī an ashkura niʿmataka-llatī anʿamta ʿalayya wa ʿalā wālidayy
My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents.
- Sunan Abi Dawud 4811
- Quran 35:29-30
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