Could you please explain verse 14 of Surah Al-Mumenoon regarding the creation of man, “We developed out of it another creature?
A Brief Description of the Question:
Could you please explain verse 14 of Surah Al-Mumenoon regarding the creation of man, “We developed out of it another creature?
The Answer:
On one hand, man is made up of a simple soil in terms of the origin of his body; on the other hand, he is a superior creation because of his qualities and abilities such as senses, reasoning given by Allah (SWT). The sentence given in the verse as “then We developed out of it another creature” expresses that man becomes a complete and an independent individual by having psychological and spiritual equipments after its physiologic formation and development. (See. Diyanet Tefsiri, Kur’an Yolu: IV/52-53.)
Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest firmly fixed; Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature: so blessed be Allah, the Best to create! (Surah Al-Mumenoon, 23/12-14).
A hadith indicates the subjects related with creation of the verse:
Each one of you is collected (i.e. constituents of creation are collected together) in his mother’s abdomen (i.e. womb ) for 40 days , and in that it is an alaqah like that , then in that it is a mudghah like that. Then God sends an angle. The spirit is breathed into him…Mehmet Sofuoğlu, Sahih-i Müslim ve Tercemesi, VIII, 114).
It can be said that up to this stage man is subject to the laws of growth, development and differentiation. From then on, a new creation phase starts in the fetus. That is, the spirit arrives in the body because the composition and arrangement of man has been completed… “then We developed out of it another creature…” (Surah Al-Mumenoon, 23/14).
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