The Qur'an tells that God said to the angels, "I am going to create man, who will be the chief of creation."
They asked, "Are we not a satisfactory army of servants who are always busy in Thy praise and admire Thy beauty and glorify Thy name? Why intendest Thou to create one who will do evil and shed blood, as he will do?"
The answer was, "Are you capable of appreciating all that I have made? Can you tell me what are the names of these things that I have made?"
God asks man; man tells Him all the names of things, the things that are sweet or bitter, the names of all manner of things; he knows and enjoys all these things in nature.
That is why God says, "We have created him that he may be the chief of all creation, and enjoy all that We have created."