As-Saffat 11: Now, ask them! Are those (many creatures other than the humans) more difficult in creation, or them (humans)? Undoubtedly, We have created them (humans) from a sticky clay.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Ask them now! Are they more difficult in terms of creation or are our creations (humans)? Surely, We created them from a sticky mud.
The right translation
Now, ask them! Are those (many creatures other than the humans) more difficult in creation, or them (humans)? Undoubtedly, We have created them (humans) from a sticky clay.
Explanation
It has been explained here as shirk in various meanings. Now ask them, are they more difficult in creation or those whom We have created (humans)?
By saying, "Is there another god besides Allah, and are they more difficult in terms of creation, or our creations, human beings?" they are saying that there are other gods besides Allah. May Allah protect us from people who open such verses. Ashkhamdu an la ilahe illallah wa ashkhamdu anna Muhammad abduhu wa waasuluhu.
However, the opening of the verse is as follows: "Now ask them (whether the beings We have created other than man?) are more difficult in creation, or the rest of Our creations (the human beings among them)," meaning that Our Lord has created man as the most superior and perfect of all created beings, and that he has been created superior to the rest of His creations. In this case, our Lord says that human beings were created as the best of all created beings. In this verse, our Lord says, "I have created man in the most beautiful way" (lekad haleknel insane fi ahseni takvim).
What is said in the video
Yes, we have come to Surah As-Saffat; in verse 11 there is a mistake. "Now ask them: in terms of creation, are they harder, or those We created, the humans?" Can you tell what it says? Let me take a look too. Now ask them: in terms of creation, are they harder? Or those We created, the humans? "Surely We created them from sticky clay," it says. Now ask them: are the beings We created other than man harder in creation? What does it say here? Now ask them: in terms of creation, are they harder, or those We created, the humans? Now it's as if someone else created these, and then Allah created the humans.
Whereas: now ask them, are the beings We created other than humans harder in creation, or the humans created among Our other creations? No doubt, We created them from sticky clay.
Now when it says sticky clay here, that means it is not an ordinary clay.
There's the sea squill, you know. The sea squill is a very poisonous onion. inside it, the onion part, where it is to be chopped chopped. When you chop it, it is all slimy, it's sticky, sticky like this, it sticks to your hand, that is real poison, Dangerous, a very dangerous onion. So when it says sticky: this is an onion too, but when you get to that part it gets sticky and makes them slippery against each other. So the clay being sticky is the symbol of its staying together like this with the spirit. The sticky clay it mentions is not ordinary clay. Yes.