Emergence of Mankind from One Man

Emergence of Mankind from One Man

According to the theory of evolution it is impossible for thousands of species to give birth to only one human being. On the other hand this theory thinks it possible that a lot of people may born simultaneously. While the holy Qur’an categorically states that the appearance of mankind is from one man and not many. God Almighty, first of all, created a single person, then from him created his mate and from them spread may men and women. The Qur’an says:

O people! fear your Lord who performed (the first act of your) creation from a single soul, and from it created its mate, then from

the pair of them scatted (the creation of) countless men and women’ This statement does not validate the evolutionary theory at any case. Here the Arabic word nafs wāhidah means one single person. It is not applicable to amoeba or other unicellular organisms as some people try to interpret it. It is illogical from scientific point of view. It is so because e the unicellular organisms do not have any conjugal system. They divide into two parts without any sexual process. This natural phenomenon is existing from millions of years and no change in this system is noted till date. So these unicellular organisms do not have any male or female.

1. Qur’an (an-Nisa) 4:1.

Special Creation of Adam

The Divine declaration that ‘innija ‘elun fil ardhe khalifah’ is refuting the evolutionary theory altogether. Many other Qur’ānic verses validate this statement.

And (call to the mind) when your Lord said to the angels: “I am about to create a human being from old (and) black stinking, sounding clay.

Here the interpretation of ‘innija ‘elun fil ardhe khalifah’ is being made with the words ‘inni Khaliq un basharan’. In g made with this way the creation of that particular ‘vicegerent’ is narrated. The word ‘bashar’ is used for both singular and plural in the Qur’an. For plural it is used as:

But (the fact is that) the (creatures) whom Allah has created, you (too) are a mortal creature from (among) them (that is, you are like other human classes). 2

http://www.MinhajBooks.com Their messengers said to them: though, we are (in our mortal self) only but human like yourselves.³ 3

Qur’an (Hijr) 15:28. Qur’an (Ma’idah) 5:18. Qur’an (Ibrāhīm) 14:11.

And for singular the word ‘bashar’ is used as:
And they (after seeing instantly) said: Allāh preserve us! No mortal is this.

For they said: what! A man; a solitary one from among ourselves! Shall we follow such a one?²

Thus one single man is inferred from the Qur’ānic words inni Khāliqun basharan’. The forthcoming verse confirms this statement:

So when I have fashioned his (outward) form in perfect proportion and breathed into (the innermost nature of this mortal) frame my own (light-diffusing) spirit, fall you down before him in prostration.³

Here both the pronouns used in sawwaituhū and nafakhtu fihi are singular and masculine which confirm the statement that only one person is being mentioned and not many. The following verses of surah Sa’ad reinfo same statement: the

1. Qur’an (Yousuf) 12:31. 2. Qur’an (Qamar) 54:24. 3. Qur’an (Hijr) 15:29.

And (call to the mind) when your Lord said to the angels: I am about to create man from clay. So when I have fashioned his (outward) form in perfect proportion and breathed into (the innermost nature of this mortal) frame my own (light diffusing) spirit, fall you down before him in prostration.” This Qur’anic statement is, therefore, rejecting the theory of evolution altogether. It is pointing out the creation of man from clay and not from unicellular organisms or other animals. Otherwise, the word dabbah would be used instead of tin. Another noteworthy point is that the aforesaid Qur’ānic statement is a dialogue between God Almighty and the angels in the occasion of Adam’s creation. And all the species of the world had been emerged till that time as is clear from the following Qur’anic verse.

And He taught Adam the nature of all things.² 2

So on the occasion when all the animals and vegetables had been appeared, the Divine statement is a clear substantiation of Adam’s creation from clay.

Qur’ān (Sa’ad) 38:71-72. Qur’an (al-Baqarah) 2:31.
Summing up

If we summarize the aforesaid whole discussion, we may get the following points relating the creation of the first man i.e. Adam:

1. Adam’s creation was especially made under the personal supervision of God Almighty and this is really a great honour for him.

2. God Almighty created him after kneading the clay and in various stages as is explicit from the following verse:

(Allah) said: O Iblis! What prevents you from prostrating yourself to one whom I have created with My hands. 3. Nearly 4.5 billions years ago, at the time of creation of the solar system, the temperature of the earth was too hot to the survival of any creature on it. It was just a hot ball of fire. It cooled down gradually and took 2 billion years to become suitable for the habitation of the initial species of life on it. Then Almighty Allah started life on it. The atmosphere of the earth was made convenient for the survival of various biological species. The primary phases of life were quite simple, the animals and vegetables who emerged first on the earth, they decreased the densities of it and made it appropriate to the habitation of superior species. However, the atmosphere of the earth became unsuitable for those initial animals and vegetables. So they gradually disappeared from the earth. The mighty

1. Qur’ān (Sa’ad) 38:75.
Dinosaurs were one of them. When the earthly temperature became suitable for the residence of mankind, Almighty Allah sent down Adam (the father of mankind) on the earth as His vicegerent. The descent of Adam clearly manifest the fact that man was not created from any inferior creature through evolution. His creation was rather made in the heaven much before his descent on the earth. The natural atmospheric evolution of the earth cannot be mixblended to the special creation of man.