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16:48 - Do they not look at Allah's creation (even) among (inanimate) things how their (very)
shadows turn round from the right and the left prostrating themselves to Allah and that in the
humblest manner? 2074
2074 I take "things" here to be inanimate things, for the next verse speaks of living, "moving creatures" and angels. By a
metaphor even such inanimate things are spoken of as recognising Allah and humbly worshipping Him. Even their
shadows turn round from right and left according to the light from above, and they humbly prostrate themselves on the
ground to celebrate the praises of Allah. (16.48)
17:49 - They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust should we really be raised up (to
be) a new creation?" 2234
2234 They do not realise that Allah Who created them once out of nothing can create them again, with memories of their
past, in order to render to Him an account of how they used or misused the talents and opportunities which they were
given. If it is to be a new Creation, what then? Bones and dust or ashes may yet retain something of the personality
which was enshrined in them. But even if they were reduced to stones or iron or anything which their minds can
conceive of as being most unlike them, yet there is nothing impossible to Allah! He has clearly sent a Message that
we shall have to render an account of ourselves, and His Message is necessarily true. (17.49)
18:51 - I called them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth nor (even) their own
creation: nor is it for Me to take as helpers such as lead (men) astray! 2396
2396 Allah wants man's good: how can He take Evil for His partner? (18.51)
21:16- Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between! 2676
2676 The Hindu doctrine of Lila, that all things were created for sport, is here negatived. But more: with Allah we must not
associate any ideas but those of Truth, Righteousness, Mercy, Justice, and the other attributes implied in His Beautiful
Names. He does not jest nor play with His creatures. (21.16)
21:104 - The Day that we roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed) even as
We produced the first Creation so shall We produce a new one: a promise We have
undertaken: truly shall We fulfil it. 2758
2758 The world-the universe-as we know it, will be folded up like a scroll of parchment, for it will have done its work. If Allah
created all this world out of nothing, He can create an entirely new heaven and a new earth, on a plane of which we
can form no conception in our present life. And He will do so, for that is His promise. (21.104)
23:12 - Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); 2872
2872 In this beautiful passage, Allah's creative work, as far as man is concerned, is recapitulated, in order to show man's
real position in this life, and the certainty of the future: to which he was referred for his reward in verses 10-11 above.
For the various stages of creation, see n. 120 to ii. 117. Here we are not concerned with the earliest stage, the
creation of primeval matter out of nothing. It is also a process of creation when inorganic matter becomes living
matter. Thus inorganic constituents of the earth are absorbed into fiving matter by way of food and living matter
reproduces itself by means of sperm. This is deposited in the ovum and fertilises it and rests for a time in security in
the mother's womb. The first change in the fertilised ovum is the conversion into a sort of clot of thickly congealed
blood; the zygote cells grow by segmentation; then the mass gradually assumes shape in its growth as a foetus. From
the lump develop bones and flesh and organs and a nervous system. So far man's growth is like that of an animal, but
a further process takes place which makes the infant animal into the infant man. This is the breathing from Allah's
spirit into him (xv. 29). It may be a continuous process parallel to that of physical growth. The child is born; it grows; it
decays and dies; but after death another chapter opens for the individual, and it is to remind us of this most
momentous chapter that the previous stages are recapitulated. (23.12)
29:19 - See they not how Allah originates creation then repeats it: truly that is easy for Allah. 3440
3440 The originating of creation is the creation of primeval matter. The repetition of the process of creation goes on
constantly, for at every moment new processes are being called into being by the creative power of Allah, and
according to His Laws. And the final creation as far as man is concerned will be in the Ma'ad, when the whole world
as man sees it will be entirely newly created on a different plane. As far as Allah is concerned, there is nothing final,
no first and last, for He is infinite. He was before our First and will be after our Last. (29.19)
38:27 - Not without purpose did We create heaven and earth and all between! That were the
thought of Unbelievers! But woe to the Unbelievers because of the Fire (of Hell)! 4179
4179 Cf. iii. 191. Unbelief is the subjective negation of a belief in Order, Beauty, Purpose, and Eternal Life. Unbelief is to
Faith as Chaos is to Cosmos, as the Fire of Misery is to the Garden of Bliss. (38.27)
39:5 - He created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions): He makes the Night overlap the
Day and the Day overlap the Night: He has subjected the sun and the moon (to His law) each
one follows a course for a time appointed. Is not He the Exalted in Power He Who forgives
again and again? 42474248
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