31 Preface وَعَلَّمَ آدَمَ الأَسماءَ كُلَّها ثُمَّ عَرَضَهُم عَلَى المَلائِكَةِ فَقالَ أَنبِئوني بِأَسماءِ هٰؤُلاءِ إِن كُنتُم صادِقينَAli Quli QaraiAnd He taught Adam the Names, all of them;1 then presented them2 to the angels and said, ‘Tell me the names of these, if you are truthful.’ It is to be noted that the pronoun in ‘all of them’ [kullahā] is feminine.The pronoun in the phrase ‘He presented them’ [ʿaraḍahum] is masculine, indicating that it does not refer to the ‘Names’ but to their referents.