Allah Honored Mankind

Allah honored men and gave them the ability to travel on land and navigate on sea. Allah also graced them with great many graces and preferred them to all the other species. Allah ordered the angels to prostrate before Adam (alayhi al salam). Allah taught Adam (alayhi al salam) the words and honored him first to dwell in Paradise. He then sent Adam down to earth to be there; generation after generation. Allah also sent to Adam the angel and made the earth an abode for him and then for his sons. He bestowed upon mankind many graces namely the cattle, sheep and other useful animals to benefit by their meat, milk and wool. Allah made the land prepared for man’s happiness, and sent down rain for the growth of crops, vegetables and fruits. He made the night for rest and the day for work. He made the sun and the moon, the rivers and the seas, and made angels responsible for keeping these things in order. Nobody can deny or count the graces of Allah, the All-Beneficent, the All-Merciful and the All-Kind to his slaves. Allah the Exalted says:

 “And indeed We have honoured the Children of Adam, and We have carried them on land and sea, and have provided them with At-Tayyibat (lawful good things), and have preferred them above many of those whom We have created with a marked preferment.” (Surah Al-Isra', 17:70)

And He says:

“Allah is He Who has created the heavens and the earth and sends down water (rain) from the sky, and thereby brought forth fruits as provision for your, and He has made the ships to be of service to you, that they may sail through the seas by His Command; and He has made rivers (also) to be of service to you. And He has made the sun and the moon, both constantly pursuing their course, to be of service to you; and He has made the night and the day, to be of service to you. And He gave you of all that you asked for, and if you count the Blessings of Allah, never will you be able to count them. Verily, man is indeed an extreme wrongdoer, a disbeliever (an extreme ingrate who demies Allah’s Blessings by disbelief, by worshipping others besides Allah, and by disobeying Allah and His Prophet Muhammad (salla Allah alayhi wa sallam).” (Surah Ibrahim, 14:32-34)

Man was created by Allah only to worship Him. Allah will subject him to trials, and examine him to check his Faith. Man was known to have many qualities, positive and negative. These qualities reflect Allah’s greatness and help us extract wisdom, in this context Allah the Exalted says:

“And also in your ownselves. Will you not then see?” (Surah Adh-Dhariyat, 51:21)

We should look for the wisdom behind our existence and we should also think of the ordainments Allah has dictated for us because who obeys and follows what Allah has ordered will enter Paradise for as an eternal abode, and who disobeys will certainly be tortured in Hell for ever and ever, having been wretched in this world.

What a fire! The Fire of Allah, kindled, that leaps over the hearts, and shall be closed upon them in pillars that are stretched forth, to torture them.

The Prophet (salla Allah alayhi wa sallam) said: “By Allah, if you know what I know, you will laugh a little and weep a lot and run away along the streets.” (Narrated by Bukhari, Muslim, Al-Nassa‘i, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah).

The human being is a weak creature who cannot stand cold and heat, the sun or air. His body is not covered with any wool or feather. If a thorn pinches him, he may suffer from pain all the night. The case being so, one should think of the great day of reckoning. One’s life can never be straight unless one follows Allah’s religion and becomes pious and worships Him alone. He should follow Allah’s orders and avoid whatever He forbade. If people try hard to legislate laws and think of prisons and penalties and similar things without resorting to Allah’s revelation, no results will be realized until they have stuck to the Qur’an and Sunnah for the purpose of reforming mankind. Allah the Exalted says:

 “Should not He Who has created know? And He is the All-Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), All-Aware (of everything).” (Surah Al-Mulk, 67:14)

Islam is the religion Allah revealed for the betterment of mankind. It is the only religion that can promote mankind from animal life and disorder to humanity, civilization, worship of Allah alone; and the allowed pleasures of this life and later the graces of the Hereafter.