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gâfilîn(a): unaware, knew nothing
The Arabic word “zurriyyat” (descendant) used in the verse, is
used 18 more times in the Qur’an. The meaning of this word in all the
verses it is used in is ‘mankind’ or ‘human generation’ as all the Islam-
ic scholars unanimously agree. In this verse, there is a reference to the
descendants of Adam - the line of the Prophet Adam (pbuh)- meaning
all human beings that have lived and will live on Earth. That is be-
cause, had that been a promise taken only from the person of the
Prophet Adam (pbuh), the verse would have read ‘When your Lord
made Adam testify.” As the verse states ‘When your Lord took out all
their descendants from the loins of the children of Adam’, there is
a reference to all the descendants of the Prophet Adam (pbuh),
meaning all mankind.
The Arabic word ‘iz’ (meaning; remember that time, when)
refers to the time when this address was made to the descendants 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 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: