What Islam says about gratitude
Shukr is the Arabic word usually translated as gratitude, and in these sources it is less a mood than a practice carried out by the heart, the tongue and the hands. It appears at the start of actions, in set phrases through the day, and in what a grateful person then does for other people. The nine entries below follow roughly that order. Each links to its page and the source the library names.
Gratitude to Allah - Shukr
Recognition and thanks for what has been given, described as something that increases. The verse sets it against its opposite, so the choice is presented as a real one.
Surah Ibrahim 14:7
Shukr in Practice - Practical Gratitude
Gratitude is completed in action, not in feeling. The verse addressed to the family of David tells them to work in gratitude, then notes how few people do.
Surah Saba 34:13
Al-Razzaq - The Provider
Sustenance is attributed to God rather than to one's own competence. That attribution is what makes thanks the fitting response to an ordinary meal.
Surah Adh-Dhariyat 51:58
Bismillah - Beginning with Allah's Name
A short phrase said before eating, writing, travelling or starting work. It attaches acknowledgement to the front of small actions, where saying it costs nothing.
Opening of Surah Al-Fatihah
Tasbih - Glorification of Allah
Short phrases of praise, repeated and often counted. The practice makes gratitude portable: it fits into a queue or a walk.
Surah Al-Hashr 59:1
Divine Remembrance - Dhikr
Remembrance is described as what settles the heart. Gratitude and calm are treated as one motion here, which is a claim worth testing rather than assuming.
Surah Ar-Ra'd 13:28
Rida - Contentment with Divine Decree
Contentment with what has been decreed, including what nobody would have chosen. This is where gratitude stops being easy, and the sources do not pretend otherwise.
Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:8
Karam - Generosity
Giving beyond what is required, described as repaid in full. Generosity belongs in this set because someone who believes they were given things tends to hold them loosely.
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:272
Smiling is Charity
A smile at another person is counted as charity. It is the smallest item here and it sets the floor: there is no situation in which nothing at all can be given.
Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Book 27, Hadith 1956
Most of these are tiny and repeatable — a phrase, a count, an expression on your face. The arrangement assumes that gratitude is built by frequency rather than intensity, and that the real test is not a good day but a decree you did not want.