In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful

This post is created for the reader to have an insight of how Allah created Man. Reference here was from the Holy Quran.

Allah is actually greater than what even Man can Imagine.

Enjoy....

(The creation of man)

And then the Kingdom was settled and prepared and none of these creatures knew from what sort this Viceregent would be for whose existence Allah had prepared this kingdom.

When the specified time in His knowledge came to bring this Viceregent into existence 17,000 years after this world had been populated and 8000 years after the Next world, which has no end, was populated, Allah commanded some of the angels to bring Him a handful of every kind of dust of the earth.

There is a long tradition about the angels bringing this to him which is well-known among people. Allah took it and kneaded it with His hands. This is His words, “what I created with My hands.” (38:75)

Allah entrusted each of the angels which we have mentioned with a trust for Adam. He said, “‘I am creating a man from clay’.(38:71).
These trusts which you have belong to him.

When I have created him, each of you give him what you have which I have entrusted you with for him. ‘When I have fashioned him and breathed My spirit into him, then prostrate yourselves to him.’ (15:29)”

Then Allah kneaded the clay of Adam with His hands until he altered its smell which had been fetid mud.

That is the part which is air in the structure. He made its outward part the place for the wretched and the happy of his progeny.

He entrusted in in what was in His hands.

Allah tells us that the happy are in His right hand and the wretched are in His left hand.

“Both hands of My Lord are blessed right hands.” He said, “Those are for the Garden and do the deeds of the people of the Garden.

Those are for the Fire and do the deeds of the people of the Fire.”

He entrusted the whole in the clay of Adam and joined the opposites in him by the principle of proximity.

He formed him on the straight movement, and that is in the domain of Virgo.

He made the six directions for him:

above, which is beyond his head,

below opposite it, which is below his feet,

right, which follows his strong side,

and left opposite it, which follows his weak side,

in front, which is before his face,

and behind opposite it, which is behind his neck.

He formed, balanced and shaped him.

Then He breathed into Him of His spirit which is related to Him.

When He breathed into it, the four humours were originated as it spread into all his parts. They are: yellow bile, black bile, blood and plelgm.

Yellow bile is from the element of fire from which Allah formed him when He said, “from a clay like the potters.” (55:14)

Black bile is from earth which is His words, “He created him from earth.” (15:26).

Blood is from air, and it is His word, “fetid mud”.

Phelgm is from water with which earth is kneaded and becomes mud.

Then Allah originated in the power of attraction by which the animal attracts food, then the power of grasping by which the animal holds what will nourish it, then the power of digestion by which food is digested, and then the expelling power by which he expels excretions from himself – sweat, vapour, wind, excrement, etc.
As for the spread of the vapours and the division of the blood in the veins from the liver and every part of the animal, that is by the power of attraction, not by the power of expelling.

The portion of the power of expelling is only what it expels, as we said, of excreta.

Then Allah originated in it the powers of feeding, growing, senses, imagination, illusion, retention and memory.

All this is in man inasmuch as he is an animal, not inasmuch as he is man except for these
four powers: the powers of imagination, illusion, retention and memory. They are stronger in man than animal.
Then He bestowed on man the faculty of conception, thought and intellect, and so he is distinct from the animal.

He put all these powers in the body as tools for the Articulate Self to reach all the benefits of the senses and meanings. “Then He formed it with another creation” (23:14) which is humanity.

He made him perceptive by these powers, and he is living, knowing, capable, willing, speaking, hearing, and seeing according to a known limit in his acquisition. “Blessed is Allah, the Best of Creators.” (23:14)

Then Allah did not name Himself with any of the names without putting some of the character of that name into man as a portion from Him which is manifest in the world according to what is proper to him.

For that reason, some people interpret the words of the Prophet, “Allah created man in His form” to have this meaning.
He sent him down as a Viceregent for Him in His earth since the earth is part of the world of change and alteration, as opposed to the Higher World.
Judgments occurred among the inhabitants of the earthly world according to the change which occurs in the celestial world. Thus the principle of all the divine names appeared.

Thus Adam is the Vicegerent in the earth rather than heaven and the Garden.
There whatever He commanded was: the knowledge of the Names, the prostration of the angels, and the refusal of Iblis as will be all mentioned in its proper place, Allah willing.

(Human bodies and types)

This chapter is devoted to the beginning of human bodies. They are of four types:

the body of Adam,

the body of Eve,

the body of Jesus and

the bodies of the children of Adam.

Each of these bodies has a formation different from the formation of the other bodies in causality, in spite of the common physical and spiritual form.
We said this, and spoke on it in order that the weak intellect might not imagine that divine power or realities do not great that this human organism be from only one cause whose essence grants this formation.

Allah refutes this doubt as this human formation appeared in Adam in a way in which it did not appear in the body of Eve;
the body of Eve appeared by a means by which the body of Adam did not appear; and the body of
the children of Adam appeared by a means by which
the body of Jesus did not appear.

Each of these are called men by definition and reality. That is so that it be known that Allah has knowledge of everything and that He has the power to do anything.
Then Allah joined together these four types of creation in an ayat of the Qur’an in the Surat al-Hujurat. (49:13) He said,

“O People, We have created you” meaning Adam
“from male” meaning Hawwa’
“and from female” meaning Jesus,
and joined “from male and female” meaning by means of marriage and birth. This ayat is part of “all the words” and “distinction of speech” which was given to Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
(The body of Adam and the body of Eve (Hawwa’))

Then the body of Adam appeared as we mentioned, and he had no appetite for marriage.

Allah already knew to bring birth, procreation and marriage into existence in this abode.

Marriage in this abode is for the continuation of the species.

Then He brought out Eve from the smallest rib of Adam.

For that reason, woman has a lesser degree than man as Allah said, “men have a degree over them”. (2:228) So women never overtake them.

Eve had the bentness which is in the ribs so that by that she might incline to her child and husband.

The man’s inclination (=tenderness) for the woman is his inclination for himself since she is a part of him.

The woman inclines to the man since she was created from the rib, and the rib has curvature and inclination.
(….the love of Adam and the love of Eve)

Allah filled the place in Adam from which Eve emerged with appetite for her since there was not be a void in existence.

When He filled him with passion, Adam yearned for her as he yearns for himself because she is a part of him.

She yearned for him because he is her home in which she was formed.
Eve’s love is love of the homeland, and
Adam’s love is love of himself.

For that reason, man’s love for woman appeared since she is the same as him, and
woman was given the faculty designated as modesty in love for men.

She is capable of secrecy because the homeland is not joined to her as Adam is joined to her.

Allah fashioned in that rib all that He fashioned and created in the body of Adam.

The formation of Adam’s body in his form was like what the potter fashions from clay and baking.

The formation of the body of Eve was like what the carpenter carves of forms in wood.

When he carved her in the rib and set up her form, shaped and balanced it, he breathed into her of His spirit.
She stood up as a living, speaking female in order to make her a place for procreation.
He feels at home with her and she feels at home with him.

She is a “garment for him and he is a garment for her.” Allah says, “They are a garment for you and you are a garment for them.” (2:187) Appetite diffused through all his parts and he sought her.
(The formation of the third type of body)

Then Adam covered her and cast water into her womb and by that drop of water,
the blood of menstruation flowed which Allah had written for women, and in that body was formed a third body different than how the body of Adam and body of Eve had been formed.

This is the third body.

Allah took charge of the formation in the womb state by state by the change from water to sperm to a bloodclot to a lump of flesh to bone.
Then Allah clothed the bones in flesh. When the animal growth was complete, He formed another creature and so breathed the human spirit into it. “Blessed is Allah, the best of creators.” (23:14) {=23+14=37 weeks of gestation}

Were it not that it would take too long, we would have explained man’s formation in the womb state by state, and
the guardian angels who are in charge of forming the embryo in the womb until it emerges. But we want to talk about human bodies. Although they are same in definition, reality, sensory and significative form, the reasons for their composition are different lest one imagine that that belongs to the essence of the cause. Exalted is Allah!

That refers to the chosen Actor who does what He wishes when He wishes without interdiction or inability in one matter rather than another. “There is no Allah except Him, the Mighty, the Wise.” (3:18)

(The formation of the body of Jesus)

Then the naturalists say that the water of woman does not have anything formed from it –even the embryo which is in the womb is from the man’s water.
Therefore we made the formation of the body of Jesus another formation, even though its regulation in the womb was the same as the regulation of the bodies of sons.
The formation of the body of Jesus was from the water of the woman since the Spirit appeared to her as a man without fault, or it was from the breath without water.
In any case, the body of Jesus is a fourth body with a different type of formation than the other bodies.

Therefore Allah said, “Truly, the likeness of Jesus” (2:56) i.e. the formation of Jesus, “with Allah is as Adam’s likeness. He created him from dust.”
The pronoun refers to Adam.

The likeness refers to his creation without a father, i.e. the quality of his formation is like that of Adam, even though He created Adam from dust.

Then Allah said to him, “Be!”

Then Jesus, as was said, did not remain in Mary’s womb the length of time that children customarily remain because he formed quicker because Allah wanted to make him a sign for people and use him to refute the naturalists when they judge nature according to what custom accord, not by the secrets and wondrous formations which Allah entrusted in it.

Some of the intelligent people establish this matter as nature and said, “We only know of it what You have given us, and it contains things which we do not know.”

@ dultmax Do Sufi also have their own version of the creation/formation of man? We want the Ahlu Sunnah perspective not Sufi or Shia or whatever perspective.
Are you not Ahlu Sunnah?

You need to understand what sufism means before you try and differentiate them from Ahlu Sunnah.....

Thanks

iamgenius:
@ dultmax Do Sufi also have their own version of the creation/formation of man? We want the Ahlu Sunnah perspective not Sufi or Shia or whatever perspective.
Are you not Ahlu Sunnah?