The Beginning and the End Episode 9

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*The Beginning and the End*

*Episode 9*

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*How Adam (Alaihissalaam) was Created*

Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) has clarified that Adam was created from earth; as is exemplified in different ways. In the following ayah, Allah (Sub-hānallah wata'aala) says that Adam was created from dust: 

Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allah is like that of Adam. He created him from dust; then He said to him, ‘Be,’ and he was. [3:59]

In this ayah Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says that he was created from clay: 

He it is Who has created you from clay, and then has decreed a stated term (for you to die). And there is with Him another determined term (for you to be resurrected), yet you doubt (in the Resurrection). [6:2]

Here Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says that he was created from sticky clay: 

… ‘Are they stronger as creation, or those [others like the heavens and the earth and the mountains, etc.] whom We have created?’ Verily, We created them of a sticky clay.

[37:11]

Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says that He created him from clay like that of pottery: 

He created man from clay like (that of) pottery. [55:14]

He (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) that He created him from sounding clay of altered 

black smooth mud: 

And indeed, We created man from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. [15:26] 

In any case, Adam was created from one substance.

Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) created Adam from clay, and he passed through different stages. He stayed like this, for as long as Allah willed; thereafter Allah breathed into him the soul which He created for him. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

And (remember) when your Rubb said to the angels: ‘I am going to create a man [Adam] from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. So, when I have fashioned him 

completely and breathed into him [Adam] the soul which I created for him, then fall (you) down prostrating yourselves unto him.’ So, the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together. Except Iblees [Satan] - he 

refused to be among those who prostrated. [15:28-31]

Mankind thereafter procreated from a weak water-like substance (sperm). Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Who made everything He has created good, and He began the creation of man from clay. * Then He made his offspring from semen of worthless water [male and female sexual discharge]. * Then He fashioned him in due 

proportion, and breathed into him the soul (created by Allah for him), and He gave you hearing [ears], sight [eyes] and hearts. Little is the thanks you give! [32:7-9] 

As the first man was created from dust (which is of earth) man shall return to it, and from it he will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Thereof [from the earth] We created you, and into it We shall return you, and from it We shall bring you out once again. [20:55]