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He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He com-
menced the creation of man from clay; then produced his seed from
an extract of base fluid. Then (He) formed him and breathed His
Spirit into him and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What little
thanks you show! (Surat as-Sajda: 7-9)
Allah reminds people who think of themselves as unaccountable
of their Creation and their resurrection following their death:
Does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked? Was he not a
drop of ejaculated sperm, then a blood-clot which He created and
shaped, making from it both sexes, male and female? Is He Who
does this not able to bring the dead to life? (Surat al-Qiyama: 36-40)
The erroneous belief that puts man at the center of the universe is
central to the perverse New Age religion and also forms the basis for one
of the Darwinists main arguments. Julian Huxley was one of Darwin’s
main advocates, and his “evolutionary humanism” idea represented a

strikingly similar perversion that aimed “to aid the evolution process to
achieve its maximum”. This was not contained to the survival of the
fittest and their reproduction, but also foresaw man as able “to attain the
highest forms of his abilities”. In other words, efforts would be made to
enable man to attain higher levels of physical and mental development.
“Humanism” was defined by Huxley as follows:
I use the word “Humanist” to mean someone who believes that man is just
as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or a plant, that his body, his
mind, and his soul were not supernaturally created but are all products of
evolution, and that the is not under the control or guidance of any super-
natural Being or beings, but has to rely on himself and his own powers. 162

Huxley lists the principles of evolutionary humanism as follows:
“The beliefs of this religion of evolutionary humanism are not based on rev-
elation in the supernatural sense, but on the revelations that science and
learning have given us about man and the universe. A humanist believes

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