The Holy Quran 96:2 — Surah Al-'Alaq

Arabic text

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

Translation

...Who created man from a clot of blood (which forms at conception and then develops into the child).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The creation of man from a clot of blood: in a clot of blood there is neither feeling nor awareness, neither knowledge nor perception; it is merely lifeless, unthinking matter. Then can Allah, Who makes lifeless, unthinking matter into a rational human being, not make a rational person perfect and an unlettered one a reader and a scholar?

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