This powerful verse calls on us all to recognize the truth of our humble beginnings.

This powerful verse calls on us all to recognize the truth of our humble beginnings. We are dust and fluids. Which Allah The Creator fashions into this glorious diversity known as humankind. The creation of human beings and all their faculties is a great mercy in itself. The fact that we can get out of bed, work, eat, play and sleep should make us grateful.

Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?
―Quran 19:67

Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips?
— Quran 90:8–9

Do they not reflect on themselves? Allah created the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them in Truth and for an appointed term. And truly many of the people are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord.
— Quran 30:8

Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief.
— Qur’an 52:35–36

Allah has created you from dust, then from a drop of semen, and then He made you pairs. No female conceives or gives birth without His Knowledge. No aged human is granted a long life or the life is cut short but is written in a book. Surely, that is easy for Allah.
―Quran 35:11

And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would never be able to number them. truly, the human being is unfair, ungrateful.
— Quran 14:34

It is Allah Who has endowed you with the faculties of hearing and sight and has given you hearts. Scarcely do you give thanks.
―Quran 23:78

Allah brought you out of your mothers’ wombs, not knowing anything; and He gave you hearing and sight and hearts, so that you might be grateful.
―Quran 16:78

According to Islam, one of our foremost duties is to be grateful to God for all of His blessings. We can describe three levels of thankfulness:

1. To realize and appreciate all blessings by and within the heart.

2. To say thanks with the tongue.

3. To express gratitude by doing righteous deeds.

In other words, the first level is the appreciativeness and gratefulness that we feel in our hearts. Then we fortify that thankfulness through our speech. And the third level is when we prove by our deeds that we are truly thankful to God.

If you were to count the blessings of Allah, never would you be able to number them.

―Quran 16:18

You’re here for a reason. You’re not a coincidence. You were created for a purpose.