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'Abdur-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di ---Chapter 3: Remembering Allah Much, Part 2 Among these things [removing grief] also is proclaiming and mentioning the favors and blessings of Allah on oneself both the outwardly manifest [favors and blessings] and the hidden. There is no doubt that recognition of Allah's favors and blessings, and speaking about them is a means by which Allah removes grief and worry from the heart, and makes a person thankful to Allah. The station of thankfulness is in itself a station of sublimity and excellence. Whatever the amount of poverty or illness, or other forms of tribulations that engulf him--- when he compares the limitless and uncountable favors of Allah on him and the unpleasant things that befell him, he sees how extremely small they [the unpleasant things] are in comparison with the blessings of Allah on him. In fact, trials and tribulations are such that when the slave is afflicted with them and he does what is required of him of patience, acceptance, and surrender, their oppressive burden becomes light, and their pain becomes mild. In addition to that, the hope that the slave has in the reward of Allah and his belief in the fact that he is worshipping Allah by his being patient and accepting what Allah has tried him with, these things sweeten the bitterness of the affliction. So the sweetness of the reward causes him to forget the bitterness of the patience. Text of lecture by Dr. Saleh as-Saleh Useful Ways of Leading a Happy Life