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be chaos unless they all agreed or they submitted to the decision of one of them.
Agreement or submission both imply an inability and weakness which no true
creator should possess. In fact, such descriptions of weakness reduce the Creator
of the universe to the status of a squabbling family of human beings in the way
that the Greeks, Romans, Hindus, and Egyptians, etc., imagined their gods to be.

2. The process of creation implies the possibility of re-creation (resurrection):

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“Does the human being think that he will be left without
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responsibility? Was he not first a mere drop of ejaculated sperm?
Then he became a leech-like clot which Allaah gave form and balance?
And from it He made the sexes, male and female? Is not the One who
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did this able to give life to the dead?”

If one reflects on how humans are wondrously created and molded from such
lowly origins, there should be no difficulty in conceiving the re-creation and
resurrection of humanity. For the re-creation of a thing is always easier than its
initial creation, as Allaah explicitly stated:

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The word manee is usually translated as sperm, but it can refer to the fluid of the female as well.
See Sahih Muslim, vol. 1, pp. 181-2, no. 614.
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Soorah al-Qiyaamah (75):36-40.

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