98 Preface وَهُوَ الَّذي أَنشَأَكُم مِن نَفسٍ واحِدَةٍ فَمُستَقَرٌّ وَمُستَودَعٌ ۗ قَد فَصَّلنَا الآياتِ لِقَومٍ يَفقَهونَYusuf AliIt is He Who hath produced you1 from a single person: here is a place of sojourn and a place of departure:2 We detail Our signs for people who understand.Produced: an sh a'a = made you grow, increase, develop, reach maturity: another of the processes of creation. This supplements n. 120 to 2:117 and n. 916 to 6:94. It is one of the wonders of God’s Creation, that from one person we have grown to be so many, and each individual has so many faculties and capacities, and yet we are all one. In the next verse we have the allegory of grapes and other fruits: all grapes may be similar to look at, yet each variety has a distinctive flavour and other distinctive qualities, and each individual grape may have its own special qualities. So for man.In the sojourn of this life we must respond to God’s hand in fashioning us, by making full use of all our faculties, and we must get ready for our departure into the Life that will be eternal.