Maryam 67: Do they not think that We have created them while they were nothing before?

Surah, Surah Maryam, 67. verse. Yes. In translation, Allah Almighty, in His verse, says thus: Does man not consider that when he was nothing before, We created him?

The word of Allah Almighty, as we always say, governs both the outward and the inward.

In the inward, while man was in the world of spirits, when he did not even exist yet, Allah Almighty wills to create a human, and from His spirit He creates the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). From his spirit He creates the spirits of the prophets. And from their spirits, by creating the spirits of their peoples, although before there was nothing at all, in the world of spirits, in the world of lahut, they came to be created.

In the outward sense, Allah Almighty sent every human, so that he would prove what kind of person he is, to the world, and so that in this world he would sustain his life and prove what kind of person he is, He created these worlds and sent us to this world. He sent us, but how did He send us? First, when there was nothing in this world, when we were nothing, He set up a human factory. First He created our father Adam's body from clay and breathed into it of His spirit. Then from our father Adam's left rib, our mother Eve He created. Then into paradise He placed them. Because of their error in paradise — which was Allah Almighty's will anyway — they were sent down to the world of dominion.

Having been nothing before, how our spirits, created earlier in the world of spirits, came to the world — people who cannot grasp this, who cannot use their reason: when they were nothing at all, have they never thought about their creation? it says. Their creation.

Allah Almighty, in man's semen, in one drop, puts 70-80 thousand human sperm. Human sperm.

When he is in contact with his wife, at the end of this desire, the spurting of his sperm — exactly as the womb, like a photo camera taking a person's picture in an instant, that snapshot, as we call it, like the (?) opening and closing, one (?) it takes in and closes. It takes in one cell and closes at once. If it stayed open, hundreds, thousands would get in. Sometimes it can catch two or three. Sometimes. But mostly it catches one and closes. These are events at the summit of Allah's art of creation.

So man, magnified thousands of times under the microscope, that, while he is a speck within the microscope, a cell, that cell in which all the organs of the whole body are written, that develops by being nourished in the mother's womb. First a skeleton, well, a blood clot; after the blood clot a skeleton, a piece of flesh wrapping around the skeleton, then a covering of skin, in three darknesses growing — yes, what it calls three darknesses: the belly, the womb, and inside the womb, in water — why in water? so the child isn't harmed when it bumps right and left — in the water it is very well protected.

Yes.

So Allah Almighty, to bring us to what kind of person we are, to ourselves, to bring us back to ourselves, commands us with His verses to think, and in this thinking to find the One who created us. What does it say? Does man not consider that when he was nothing before, We created him? Yes. When Allah Almighty willed to create man, first the light of the Prophet (peace be upon him) He created. Then, giving him of His spirit, the first creation of mankind and the universe, the Seal of the Prophets, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), He created. For this reason the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: Allah first created me, Allah first created the intellect, Allah first created the pen, he says.

Then from his spirit He created the spirits of the prophets, and from the spirits of the prophets He created the spirits of their peoples. Then, so that the world of dominion would be entered, our forefather Adam's body from clay He created. By giving it His spirit, in the first garment of a body He created man.

Then from his left rib He created our mother Eve. So that people coming into the world could put on the garment of a body, in this way, female and male, the material appearances of people, upon the earth by sending them, He made their bodies appear. Sir, in one drop of (?) water, seventy, eighty thousand human sperm He created. The sudden spurting of one of these, and like a photo camera in sunlight taking a picture, with a very brief opening, the mother's womb opening, of the sperm that (?), one entering inside there, and the womb closing at once, fertilization coming about — this is not the work of coincidence.

As for the people who attribute this to coincidence, it is because they either, against Allah Almighty, raise the flag of rebellion and spew hatred at Allah, or because their mental balance is disturbed.

Anyway, those who spew hatred at Allah, who say Allah doesn't exist, Darwin and the people who think like Darwin: oh, I don't know, so many million years ago, this animal was like this. Then it changed shape. It became like this. Sir, to these people I call out from here, or to the people who hold such thoughts I call out from here. I say: as a human being, for the purpose of your creation, will you never use your reason? A person who uses his reason — if he used it even a little — that animal, millions of years ago, changed shape: don't think about that. Turn to yourself, first think what kind of being you are.

Your existence, these mechanisms, these organs, complementing each other, your being created flawlessly in the most beautiful order, and because of this creation, in these organs — though they had no mind or life, did they come together by themselves, and a human form, this mind and brain, memories, this device, let me say, called the heart, and your lungs — even if a laboratory as big as the world were built, it would barely do the work these lungs do. In that case, did these, by themselves, in an order, complete your order? Instead of looking at that animal changing shape millions of years ago, first look at the creation of what kind of being you are.

Then look at the One who created those animals. At the Creator. These animals didn't come into being from nothing.

That is, they didn't come into being by themselves. There is someone who created them. So does that Creator fit into your mind, or, your mind to its Creator, fitting your Creator into your mind, fitting our Lord into it, rather than animals changing shape — on earth, you too know that the created 17 thousand realms filter the world; that if these animals hadn't existed, the world would turn into a garbage dump — today you too know this very well. In that case, was this also a coincidence — that the world, escaping such a dump, creating beings that clean it, kept itself clean?

Talking in this way is the talk of a person whose mental balance is disturbed or who has raised the flag of rebellion against Allah, and these — just as their talk is given no value, just as we will give it no value, it is also not right for us to treat them as human and listen to them. Because these have fallen into an inferiority complex; to show themselves as somebody among people, outside the order that exists, outside an established order, they put forward certain theories and draw attention to themselves, trying to prove that they are somebody — lowly people, that's what they are. It's not me saying it, mind you.

Allah Almighty says it. They are like four-legged beasts roaming the earth. Their way is even more astray, He says. Yes.

Before, when man was nothing, not in the garment of a body, so that he could come to the world and live the covenant he gave to Allah Almighty, Allah created man with knowledge and brought him forth. How can man forget this creation of his and, toward Allah who created him, be both rebellious and forget Allah and the hereafter?

For this man to be both rebellious and to forget Allah and the hereafter, it takes his own imagined Lord — his waiting for Him, you see, and then, failing to find even that imagined Lord, his continuing in his deviance. That's how it is. Rebellious people who deny their origin are people who do not use their reason.