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.