Creation and making
Praise be Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, and made the darkness and the light. Yet those who reject Faith hold (others) as equal, with their Guardian-Lord.
He it is created you from clay, and then decreed a stated term (for you). And there is in His presence another determined term; yet ye doubt within yourselves!
Chapter 6, Verses 1-2
God has created the heavens and the earth. God is the one Who created the whole universe. He has developed such a system of Matter and Energy that some bodies emit light and some do not. For example, the stars emit the light but planets do not emit the light. It is due to this system that darkness and light both exist in our universe.
Here there is one point which should be considered.
In this verse, God has used the word “created” for the birth of heavens and the earth and the He used the word “made” for darkness and the light. One reason of these choices of words can be that when these two words would be used simultaneously, “created” means something which is created from nothing, and “made” means something which is created from some already present material. This means that the darkness and the light both are the phenomenon of this universe. But the planets and heavens and earth, they all are created by God from scratch.
In this verse, God says that He has created humans from “clay”. What is the meaning of creation from clay? We will be discussing that in later posts but for now, it should be taken that in scientific terms, clay means Matter. It means that the man is created from matter.
This is really a great miracle of the God that He has created a beautiful, intelligent, living human from a non-living matter.
