Divine Gifts

The blessings, gifts, and favors of Allaah upon His creation: Man lives in the shade of Allaah's numerous and perfect blessings as he wallows in His expansive favor. These blessings are too abundant to be counted. To demonstrate the abundance of His blessings, He revealed Surat "An-Nahl" [The Bees], which is also called "an-Ni'am" [The Blessings]. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {If you count the blessing of Allah, you will not reckon it.} [Quran 16:18]. He also Says (what means): {They recognize the blessing of Allah, then they deny it, and most of them are ungrateful...} [Quran 16:83] What then are the most manifest of these divine gifts which Allaah bestowed upon His slaves, thereby favoring them, and which none are able to do or give except Allaah? The blessing of an upright creation Allaah The Almighty Created the father of mankind, Adam, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, , with His hands to honor him, and He created him in the best of stature. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {Indeed, We have created man in the best of stature.} [Quran 95:4], and He infused life into him with His spirit. He commanded the angels to prostrate in his honor and with esteem for his offspring, as He The Almighty also Says (what means): {When your Lord said to the angels, "I am forming a man out of clay, so when I have completed him and infused life into him with My Spirit, then fall down before him in prostration." All of the angels then prostrated-all together-but not Iblees. He was arrogant and was of the disbelievers. He said, "O Iblees! What prevented you from prostrating for what I have created with My Hands? Are you arrogant or are you of the haughty?"} [Quran: 71-75] Then to complete the blessing upon man, He created his spouse with whom he could share his solitude. Allaah The Almighty Says about this (what means): {He is who created you from one soul and made of it its mate, that he may dwell in comfort with her} until {they supplicated Allaah their Lord, saying: If You give us one upright, we shall be of the grateful.} [Quran 7:189]. Al-Qurtubi, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, , the exegete, said in his Tafseer:The meaning of 'upright' is that he will be a complete child without any deformities. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {He who created you, then fashioned you, then proportioned you.} [Quran 82:7], i.e. He made you proportionate with a complete form.