Day 19: God's Gift To You

"Allah has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than on others;

those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom their right hands possess so as to be equal in that respect.

Will they then deny the favors of Allah?" (Qur’an 16 verse 71)

Allah alone provides sustenance for all His creations and distributes them as He wills in different shapes and forms. Some people are blessed from birth with wealth, and they might not be blessed with education. Whereas some are blessed with the highest of education, yet could still be poor. Some are blessed with health but not with wealth; whereas a person born with silver-spoon in his mouth, may not be blessed with good health. Indeed, “Allah has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than on others…”

God created everyone and has not given everything to any particular person; nor has He denied anyone everything. But, He chooses to distribute and re-distributes as He wills. He sprinkle a bit of everything on some people and He may give someone abundance of something. His sustenance is not limited to health, wealth, or knowledge. He bestows good behaviour, stable health, sound knowledge, deep wisdom, peace of mind (tranquil heart), long life-span, power (leadership), intellect, beauty, oratory, physical strength, unique super-human attributes (like photo-memory, extra-ordinary immunity, insights), varieties of skills and competences, etc.

Even those whom Allah has given in abundance some sustenance, they are unable to transform other people’s life by equally sharing their sustenance, or even give more of theirs to others. “...those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom their right hands possess so as to be equal in that respect...” Man is competitive. He cannot and will not split his sustenance with someone less endowed. This is not in Human’s nature, only Allah has the Power to transform lives and that is why He alone deserves to be worshipped. None can be worshipped but He who gives as He wills. Why then do people worship, hold in obeisance or even venerate worldly kings and leaders who do not share their wealth or honour with the lowly and are not inclined to transform lives?

All the blessings and sustenance of Allah left in the hand of men would be denied to majority of us. Allah has favoured us for His blessings. Take a good look at yourself, at the things you have which others don’t have, at the skills and competences you possess without any design or desire of yours or your parents and acknowledge Allah, thank Allah and worship Allah for He did for you as He wills. “...Will they then deny the favors of Allah?”

Take account of the blessings of sight, speech, hearing, body organs, some are well endowed with these blessings, others are not at all. Some are blessed from childhood and taken away later, others have never been blessed with these facilities. Indeed, even in our own selves are the signs of Allah’s greatness and enough reasons to worship Him because of what He has blessed us with and which of His favours would we deny (Qur'an 55 verse 13).

“And (also) in yourselves (are the remarkable signs of Allah). Can you then not see? And in the heaven is your providence and that which you are promised.” (Qur'an 51 verses 21-22)