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Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between said to him, ‘Do you then disbelieve in Him Who
you by means of wine and gambling, and to created you from dust, then from a drop of
debar you from remembrance of Allah and from sperm, and then formed you as a man?’ (18:37)
prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:91) Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the
Abandon those who have turned their religion Rising, know that We created you from dust then
into a game and a diversion and who have been from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood
deluded by the life of this world. Remind by it then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed,
lest a person is delivered up to destruction for so We may make things clear to you. We make
what he has earned with no protector or interces- whatever We want stay in the womb until a spec-
sor besides Allah. Were he to offer every kind of ified time and then We bring you out as children
compensation, it would not be accepted from so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of
him. Such people are delivered up to destruction you die and some of you revert to the lowest
for what they have earned. They will have scald- form of life so that, after having knowledge, they
ing water to drink and a painful punishment be- then know nothing at all. And you see the earth
cause they disbelieved. (6:70) dead and barren; then when We send down
Each and every one of you will return to Him. water onto it it quivers and swells and sprouts
Allah’s promise is true. He brings creation out of with luxuriant plants of every kind. (22:5)
nothing and then regenerates it so that he can We created man from the purest kind of clay;
repay with justice those who believed and did then made him a drop in a secure receptacle;
right actions. Those who disbelieved will have a then formed the drop into a clot and formed the
drink of scalding water and a painful punishment clot into a lump and formed the lump into bones
because of their disbelief. (10:4) and clothed the bones in flesh; and then brought
And beyond him is Hell where he will be given him into being as another creature. Blessed be
pus to drink. (14:16) Allah, the Best of Creators! (23:12-14)
There is instruction for you in cattle. From the Allah created you from dust and then from a drop
contents of their bellies, from between the dung of sperm and then made you into pairs. No fe-
and blood, We give you pure milk to drink, easy male becomes pregnant or gives birth except
for drinkers to swallow. (16:66) with His knowledge. And no living thing lives
And from the fruit of the date-palm and the long or has its life cut short without that being in
grape-vine you derive both intoxicants and a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
wholesome provision. There is certainly a Sign in Does not man see that We created him from a
that for people who use their intellect. (16:67) drop yet there he is, an open antagonist! (36:77)
Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever It is He Who created you from earth, then from a
wishes believe and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He
We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire brings you out as infants, then so you may
whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them achieve full strength, then so you may become
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with old men–though some of you may die before that
water like seething molten brass, frying their time–so that you may reach a predetermined age
faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil re- and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
pose! (18:29) (40:67)
Then they will have a boiling brew to drink on (Has he not been informed) that He created the
top of it. (37:67) two sexes–male and female–out of a sperm-drop
when it spurted forth? (53:45-46)
DROP Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then a
He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he blood-clot which He created and shaped, mak-
is an open challenger! (16:4) ing from it both sexes, male and female? (75:37-
His companion, with whom he was debating, 39)
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