Verses about Man’s creation and status

Recite in the name of your Lord who created -

Leave Me with the one I created alone

And [by] He who created the male and female,

Those who avoid the major sins and immoralities, only [committing] slight ones. Indeed, your Lord is vast in forgiveness. He was most knowing of you when He produced you from the earth and when you were fetuses in the wombs of your mothers. So do not claim yourselves to be pure; He is most knowing of who fears Him.

And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -

Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he.

And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it

Indeed, it is He who originates [creation] and repeats.

We have certainly created man in the best of stature;

Does man think that he will be left neglected?

Did We not create you from a liquid disdained?

Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.

We have certainly created man into hardship.

So let man observe from what he was created.

[So mention] when your Lord said to the angels, ‘ Indeed, I am going to create a human being from clay.

And We have certainly established you upon the earth and made for you therein ways of livelihood. Little are you grateful.

And ‘ O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat from wherever you will but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers.’

And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], ‘ Am I not your Lord?’ They said, ‘ Yes, we have testified.’ [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, ‘ Indeed, we were of this unaware.’

It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate that he might dwell in security with her. And when he covers her, she carries a light burden and continues therein. And when it becomes heavy, they both invoke Allah, their Lord, ‘ If You should give us a good [child], we will surely be among the grateful.’

And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned?

And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.

Do they not see that We have created for them from what Our hands have made, grazing livestock, and [then] they are their owners?

Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?

And it is He who has created from water a human being and made him [a relative by] lineage and marriage. And ever is your Lord competent [concerning creation].

And Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop; then He made you mates. And no female conceives nor does she give birth except with His knowledge. And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan lessened but that it is in a register. Indeed, that for Allah is easy.

It is He who has made you successors upon the earth. And whoever disbelieves - upon him will be [the consequence of] his disbelief. And the disbelief of the disbelievers does not increase them in the sight of their Lord except in hatred; and the disbelief of the disbelievers does not increase them except in loss.

[An angel] said, ‘ Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, ‘It is easy for Me, for I created you before, while you were nothing.’ ‘

Does man not remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?

[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.

They said, ‘ Never will we prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and [over] He who created us. So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree for this worldly life.

And [mention] when We said to the angels, ‘ Prostrate to Adam,’ and they prostrated, except Iblees; he refused.

We have created you, so why do you not believe?

And you have already known the first creation, so will you not remember?

Who created me, and He [it is who] guides me.

And fear He who created you and the former creation.’

Or [any] creation of that which is great within your breasts.’ And they will say, ‘ Who will restore us?’ Say, ‘ He who brought you forth the first time.’ Then they will nod their heads toward you and say, ‘ When is that?’ Say, ‘ Perhaps it will be soon -

And [mention] when We said to the angles, ‘ Prostrate to Adam,’ and they prostrated, except for Iblees. He said, ‘ Should I prostrate to one You created from clay?’

And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference.

And when We give the people a taste of mercy after adversity has touched them, at once they conspire against Our verses. Say, ‘ Allah is swifter in strategy.’ Indeed, Our messengers record that which you conspire

He gives life and causes death, and to Him you will be returned

O my people, I do not ask you for it any reward. My reward is only from the one who created me. Then will you not reason?

And to Thamud [We sent] their brother Salih. He said, ‘ O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. He has produced you from the earth and settled you in it, so ask forgiveness of Him and then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is near and responsive.’

And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ.

And We have made for you therein means of living and [for] those for whom you are not providers.

And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.

It is He who created you from clay and then decreed a term and a specified time [known] to Him; then [still] you are in dispute.

And there is no creature on [or within] the earth or bird that flies with its wings except [that they are] communities like you. We have not neglected in the Register a thing. Then unto their Lord they will be gathered.

Say, ‘ Have you considered: if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and set a seal upon your hearts, which deity other than Allah could bring them [back] to you?’ Look how we diversify the verses; then they [still] turn away.

[It will be said to them], ‘ And you have certainly come to Us alone as We created you the first time, and you have left whatever We bestowed upon you behind you. And We do not see with you your ‘intercessors’ which you claimed that they were among you associates [of Allah]. It has [all] been severed between you, and lost from you is what you used to claim.’

And it is He who produced you from one soul and [gave you] a place of dwelling and of storage. We have detailed the signs for a people who understand.

And your Lord is the Free of need, the possessor of mercy. If He wills, he can do away with you and give succession after you to whomever He wills, just as He produced you from the descendants of another people.

Then inquire of them, [O Muhammad], ‘ Are they a stronger [or more difficult] creation or those [others] We have created?’ Indeed, We created men from sticky clay.

While Allah created you and that which you do?’

Do you not see that Allah has made subject to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and amply bestowed upon you His favors, [both] apparent and unapparent? But of the people is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge or guidance or an enlightening Book [from Him].

Your creation and your resurrection will not be but as that of a single soul. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Seeing.

Indeed, Allah [alone] has knowledge of the Hour and sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. And no soul perceives what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul perceives in what land it will die. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

He created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you averted?

The creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of the people do not know.

It is Allah who made for you the earth a place of settlement and the sky a ceiling and formed you and perfected your forms and provided you with good things. That is Allah, your Lord; then blessed is Allah, Lord of the worlds.

It is He who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot; then He brings you out as a child; then [He develops you] that you reach your [time of] maturity, then [further] that you become elders. And among you is he who is taken in death before [that], so that you reach a specified term; and perhaps you will use reason.

It is Allah who made for you the grazing animals upon which you ride, and some of them you eat.

As for ‘Aad, they were arrogant upon the earth without right and said, ‘ Who is greater than us in strength?’ Did they not consider that Allah who created them was greater than them in strength? But they were rejecting Our signs.

And they will say to their skins, ‘ Why have you testified against us?’ They will say, ‘ We were made to speak by Allah, who has made everything speak; and He created you the first time, and to Him you are returned.

[He is] Creator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you from yourselves, mates, and among the cattle, mates; He multiplies you thereby. There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He creates what he wills. He gives to whom He wills female [children], and He gives to whom He wills males.

[The one] who has made for you the earth a bed and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided

And [mention, O Muhammad], when Abraham said to his father and his people, ‘ Indeed, I am disassociated from that which you worship

And if you asked them who created them, they would surely say, ‘ Allah.’ So how are they deluded?

And in the creation of yourselves and what He disperses of moving creatures are signs for people who are certain [in faith].

It is Allah who subjected to you the sea so that ships may sail upon it by His command and that you may seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful.

And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, ‘ My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.’

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, ‘ Have you disbelieved in He who created you from dust and then from a sperm-drop and then proportioned you [as] a man?

And the record [of deeds] will be placed [open], and you will see the criminals fearful of that within it, and they will say, ‘ Oh, woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?’ And they will find what they did present [before them]. And your Lord does injustice to no one.

And We have certainly diversified in this Qur’an for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute.

He created man from a sperm-drop; then at once, he is a clear adversary.

And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies - between excretion and blood - pure milk, palatable to drinkers.

And Allah created you; then He will take you in death. And among you is he who is reversed to the most decrepit [old] age so that he will not know, after [having had] knowledge, a thing. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Competent.

And Allah has made for you from yourselves mates and has made for you from your mates sons and grandchildren and has provided for you from the good things. Then in falsehood do they believe and in the favor of Allah they disbelieve?

And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing, and He made for you hearing and vision and intellect that perhaps you would be grateful.

And Allah has made for you from your homes a place of rest and made for you from the hides of the animals tents which you find light on your day of travel and your day of encampment; and from their wool, fur and hair is furnishing and enjoyment for a time.

While He has created you in stages?

And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse

It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and sent down rain from the sky and produced thereby some fruits as provision for you and subjected for you the ships to sail through the sea by His command and subjected for you the rivers.

Man was created of haste. I will show you My signs, so do not impatiently urge Me.

And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.

And indeed, for you in livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from that which is in their bellies, and for you in them are numerous benefits, and from them you eat.

And it is He who has multiplied you throughout the earth, and to Him you will be gathered.

[Allah] will say, ‘ How long did you remain on earth in number of years?’

Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of man from clay.

Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -

It is He who made the earth tame for you - so walk among its slopes and eat of His provision - and to Him is the resurrection.

Say, ‘ It is He who has produced you and made for you hearing and vision and hearts; little are you grateful.’

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.

And We created you in pairs

And after that He spread the earth.

O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous,

He brings the living out of the dead and brings the dead out of the living and brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. And thus will you be brought out.

Allah is the one who created you, then provided for you, then will cause you to die, and then will give you life. Are there any of your ‘ partners’ who does anything of that? Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him.

Allah is the one who created you from weakness, then made after weakness strength, then made after strength weakness and white hair. He creates what He wills, and He is the Knowing, the Competent.

O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous -

How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned.

Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, ‘ My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death,’ he said, ‘ I give life and cause death.’ Abraham said, ‘ Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west.’ So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.

It is He who forms you in the wombs however He wills. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night; and You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give provision to whom You will without account.’

She said, ‘ My Lord, how will I have a child when no man has touched me?’ [The angel] said, ‘ Such is Allah; He creates what He wills. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.

Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allah is like that of Adam. He created Him from dust; then He said to him, ‘ Be,’ and he was.

And their Lord responded to them, ‘ Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another. So those who emigrated or were evicted from their homes or were harmed in My cause or fought or were killed - I will surely remove from them their misdeeds, and I will surely admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow as reward from Allah, and Allah has with Him the best reward.’

O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer.

And Allah wants to lighten for you [your difficulties]; and mankind was created weak.

His is the dominion of the heavens and earth. He gives life and causes death, and He is over all things competent.

Allah knows what every female carries and what the wombs lose [prematurely] or exceed. And everything with Him is by due measure.

The Most Merciful

He created man from clay like [that of] pottery.

Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned?

We have created them and strengthened their forms, and when We will, We can change their likenesses with [complete] alteration.

O People, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection, then [consider that] indeed, We created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed - that We may show you. And We settle in the wombs whom We will for a specified term, then We bring you out as a child, and then [We develop you] that you may reach your [time of] maturity. And among you is he who is taken in [early] death, and among you is he who is returned to the most decrepit [old] age so that he knows, after [once having] knowledge, nothing. And you see the earth barren, but when We send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows [something] of every beautiful kind.

And the camels and cattle We have appointed for you as among the symbols of Allah; for you therein is good. So mention the name of Allah upon them when lined up [for sacrifice]; and when they are [lifeless] on their sides, then eat from them and feed the needy and the beggar. Thus have We subjected them to you that you may be grateful.

Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you whatever is on the earth and the ships which run through the sea by His command? And He restrains the sky from falling upon the earth, unless by His permission. Indeed Allah, to the people, is Kind and Merciful.

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

It is He who created you, and among you is the disbeliever, and among you is the believer. And Allah, of what you do, is Seeing.

Indeed, to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and causes death. And you have not besides Allah any protector or any helper.