Favours of the Gracious God — Page 188
188 like someone who possesses insight or may you at least become someone who wishes to learn further. Thus, you should note that as a human being underwent various transformations through different stages of creation and was brought from the domain of potentiality to actuality and was fashioned with a variety of shapes and forms, during these phases of nature, each phase had various differences and distinctive features, which required an appropriate name. So, it is Arabic which bestowed upon each phase a particular name and perfected its benefaction like a generous financier. The details of this are that when Allah the Almighty intended to create man, He created him from an extract of clay which is free from every impurity. When God refers to the creation of man from ٌ ج ُرَا� �ت [ tur a bun : dust]; it is for this reason He names him, in speech and in the Book, آدَم [ A dam] because He has infused him with the qualities of all the world and likewise imbued two loves in his disposition: firstly, a love for that very thing from which he was created and secondly, a love for the Creator—the Most Gracious, just as children have love for the mother and father. It was for this reason that he was named ض ْسَا� ض ا�ِ [ Ins a n: human] - which is a noun in the dual form, so that this word may forever proclaim these