14وَقَد خَلَقَكُم أَطوارًاMuhammad Asadseeing that He has created [every one of] you in successive stages?1I.e., by a process of gradual evolution, in the mother's womb, from a drop of sperm and a fertilized germ-cell (the female ovum), up to the point where the embryo becomes a new, self-contained human entity (cf. 22:5): all of which points to the existence of a plan and a purpose and, hence, to the existence of a conscious Creator.