71 Preface إِذ قالَ رَبُّكَ لِلمَلائِكَةِ إِنّي خالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِن طينٍYusuf AliBehold, thy Lord said1 to the angels: “I am about to create man from clay:2Two passages may be compared with this: viz. : (1) 2:30-39, where merely the first stages of the Rebellion against God and its consequences to mankind are mentioned, and (2) 15:29-40, where the further intrusion of evil in man’s life here below is referred to, and an assurance is given that Evil will have no power except over those who yield to it. The latter is the passage most relevant here, as we are now dealing with the power of Revelation to defeat the machinations of Evil.This shows that the material world round us was created by God before God fashioned man and breathed of His soul into him. Geology also shows that man came on the scene at a very late stage in the history of this planet.