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Tafsir: As-Saffat 37:11

37:11
فاستفتهم اهم اشد خلقا ام من خلقنا انا خلقناهم من طين لازب ١١
فَٱسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَم مَّنْ خَلَقْنَآ ۚ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُم مِّن طِينٍۢ لَّازِبٍۭ ١١
فَٱسۡتَفۡتِهِمۡ
أَهُمۡ
أَشَدُّ
خَلۡقًا
أَم
مَّنۡ
خَلَقۡنَآۚ
إِنَّا
خَلَقۡنَٰهُم
مِّن
طِينٖ
لَّازِبِۭ
١١
So ask them ˹O Prophet˺, which is harder to create: them or other marvels of Our creation?1 Indeed, We created them from a sticky clay.2
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You are reading a tafsir for the group of verses 37:11 to 37:18

The universe as we observe from the earth is so complicated and so extensive that the re-creation of human beings in the next world appears to be a work of comparatively smaller magnitude. A greater specimen of the creative power of the Creator is before us, then why should it be impossible for that Creator to engage in creation on a lesser scale? On analysing the human body, it appears that it is a combination of earthly components. Man is made up of substances found on earth, such as water, calcium, iron, sodium, etc. All these are found in our world in abundance, then by utilising the same elements from which He once created human beings, can He not re-create man?