He thanks Allāh (SwT) and expresses his amazement at how...

He thanks Allāh (SwT) and expresses his amazement at how Allāh (SwT) created such a beautiful creation from a few seeds.

“O God, You caused me to descend as mean water from loins of narrow bones and tight passages into a constricted womb which You hadst covered with veils; You turned me about from state to state until You took me to the completion of the form and fixed within me the bodily parts, as You hast described in Your Book: a drop, then a clot, then a tissue, then bones, then You garmented the bones with flesh, then You produced me as another creature as You willed.

Then, when I needed Your provision, and could not do without the aid of Your bounty, Thou appointed for me a nourishment from the bounty of the food and drink which You bestowed upon Your handmaid in whose belly You gavest me to rest and in the lodging of whose womb You deposited me. Hadst You entrusted me in those states, my Lord, to my own force or driven me to have recourse to my own strength, force would have been removed from me and strength taken far away.

So You fed me through Your bounty with the food of the Good, the Gentle; You hast done that for me in graciousness toward me up to this my present point. I do not lack Your goodness, nor does Your benefaction keep me waiting. Yet with all that, my trust has not become firm enough that I might free myself for that which is more favoured by You.” ^5 In a hadith al-Qudsi, Allāh (SwT) addresses the ungrateful man and says: “Oh, Son of Adam! You have not acted justly with me!

I made your weight light on your mother! After that I made the path of your deliverance from a tight and dark place smooth (and tolerable). When you placed a foot in the world outside the womb, I saw that you don’t have teeth to eat food; I placed breasts full of milk in the warm bosom of (your) mother. I made the heart of your mother merciful towards you, and the heart of your father affectionate, such that they take pains to give you food, and do not sleep until they make you sleep.

Oh, Son of Adam! All these favours were not because you asked it from me, nor that I needed you. And when the state of your physical constitution was ready, and your teeth grew, I made you enjoy (and benefit from) (different) types of foods and fruits of the summer and winter. However!