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ADNAN OKTAR (HARUN YAHYA)

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 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 sec-
ond time in the Hereafter.
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 exis-
tence 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, existed
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 being
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 enemies to each