11 Preface فَاستَفتِهِم أَهُم أَشَدُّ خَلقًا أَم مَن خَلَقنا ۚ إِنّا خَلَقناهُم مِن طينٍ لازِبٍYusuf AliJust ask their1 opinion: are they the more difficult to create, or the (other) beings We have created? Them have We created out of a sticky clay!2Their, “they” are the doubters, the evil ones, the deniers of God’s grace and mercy, who laugh at Revelation and disbelieve in a Hereafter. Are they more important or more difficult to create than the wonderful variety of beings in God’s spacious Creation? Do they forget their own lowly state, as having been created from muddy clay?Cf. 6:2; 7:12; 32:7; etc.