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other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment for a
time.’ (Surat al-Baqara, 36)
In another verse of the Qur’an, God informs us about the prom-
ise given by all mankind in the spiritual realm as follows:
Remember God’s blessing to you and the covenant He made with
you when you said, ‘We hear and we obey.’ Have fear of God. God
knows what the heart contains. (Surat al-Ma’ida, 7)
Those who gave their promises to God in the spiritual realm were
not part human and part other creatures, with incomplete forms and
undeveloped limbs. They were complete and conscious humans. This
is a clear proof that creation through evolution does not exist in the
Qur’an.

THOSE MUSLIMS WHO ADVOCATE EVOLUTION ARE
UNABLE TO EXPLAIN THE CREATION OF ANGELS
AND THE JINN

When those who claim that mankind developed through an evo-
lutionary process are asked about how angels and the jinn were cre-
ated, their answer will be ‘God created them out of nothing’. It is quite
astonishing that these individuals, who are aware of and acknowl-
edge the fact that angels and the jinn are creations of God, fail to real-
ize that God created mankind in the same manner. It is highly
surprising that they fail to see that Almighty Lord, Who created angels
with His command ‘Be’, created mankind in the same manner. Like-
wise, God creates angels in human form, instantaneously. The angels
who visited the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) had the appearance of fully
developed and flawless human beings and were created instanta-
neously.
God informs in the Qur’an that the jinn, unlike mankind, were
created from fire: