that you may sit upon their backs and then remember your Lord’s grace when you are settledupon them… He said:Truly, God has privileged the prophets  and some of the veracious (ṣiddīqūn) with the cognisance(maʿrifa) of the blessings (niʿam) that God, Exalted is He, has bestowed upon them, before their disappearance, as well as the knowledge of God’s clemency (ḥilm) with them. However, the blessings of God, Exalted is He, are indeed diminished in the eyes of the person who does not recognise the blessings that God has granted him, other than those pertaining to his eating, drinking and riding [a beast of burden].His words, Exalted is He: