Page 513 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

The Arabic word 'zurriyyat' (descendant) used in the verse, is used 18
more times in the Qur'an. The meaning of this word in all the verses it is
used in is 'mankind' or 'human generation' as all the Islamic scholars unan-
imously agree. In this verse, there is a reference to the descendants of
Adam - the line of the Prophet Adam (pbuh)- meaning all human beings
that have lived and will live on Earth. That is because, had that been a
promise taken only from the person of the Prophet Adam (pbuh), the
verse would have read 'When your Lord made Adam testify." As the verse
states 'When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of the
children of Adam', there is a reference to all the descendants of the
Prophet Adam (pbuh), meaning all mankind.
The Arabic word 'iz' (meaning; remember that time, when) refers to the
time when this address was made to the descendants of the Prophet
Adam (pbuh), meaning to all mankind. The word 'iz' is a preposition used
while talking about an incident that took place in the past. It means
'remember this incident that took place in the past'. What is meant here is
the testimony, the promise all humankind gave in the past, even before
the universe was created.
In another verse of the Qur'an, it is stated that people will die twice and
will be given life twice:
They will say, 'Our Lord, twice You caused us to die and twice You gave
us life. We admit our wrong actions. Is there no way out?' (Qur'an, 40:11)
The first death and life mentioned in this verse is the way people -in a
sense- die after they gave this promise in the spiritual realm, and then are
given life by God using their parents as instruments and are sent to this
world. The second death is the physical death that we know of in this
world. After that, people will be given life for the second time in the Here-
after.
When this is the case, the 'gradual formation of mankind' claims of those
who assert that creation through evolution is mentioned in the Qur'an
become utterly invalid. Humans did not come into existence in a gradual
manner. The whole of mankind, the Prophet Adam (pbuh), and all the
other prophets existed in the spiritual realm even before the whole uni-
verse was created. The claim that the Prophet Adam (pbuh) and the rest
of mankind turned into modern man through a set of evolutionary
processes does not hold any truth.
The Prophet Adam (pbuh), just like the rest of humanity, existed in the spir-
itual realm even before the universe was created, and then was created

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