Page 168 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

In the Qur'an, Allah reveals that the creation of the human is a mir-
acle. The first human being was created by Allah shaping clay into
human form and breathing a soul into it:
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 Spirit into him, fall
down in prostration to him!" (Qur'an, 38:71-72)
Then inquire of them: Is it they who are stronger in structure or other
things We have created? We created them from sticky clay. (Qur'an,
37:11)
When the human body is examined today, it may be discovered
that many elements present on the earth are also to be found in the
body. Living tissues contain 95% carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
phosphorus and sulphur, with a total of 26 different elements. 95 In
another verse of the Qur'an we are told:
We created man from an extract of clay. (Qur'an, 23:12)

The Arabic word "sulaalah," translated as "extract" in the
verse, means "representative example, essence." As we have
seen, the information revealed in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago
confirms what modern science tells us-the fact that the same
elements are employed in human creation as those found
in the soil.

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