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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?’ (Surah Ghafir, 11)

The first death and life mentioned in this verse is the way peo-
ple–in a sense- die after they gave this promise in the spiritual
realm, and then are given life by God using their parents as instru-
ments 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 giv-
en life for the second time in the Hereafter.
When this is the case, the ‘gradual formation of mankind’
claims of those who assert that creation through evolution is men-
tioned 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 universe 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, ex-
isted in the spiritual realm even before the universe was created,
and then was created in Heaven, later to be sent to the Earth:
Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I am going to create a human be-
ing out of clay. When I have formed him and breathed My Soul
into him, fall down in prostration to him!’ (Surah Sâd, 71-72)

But satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them
from where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as ene-