then made his progeny from the extract of a mean fluid,1
Footnotes
[1]
That is, “In the beginning He created man directly by His own act of creation, and then placed in man himself such a procreative ability that similar men continue being produced by his sperm-drop. By one excellent act He gave life and consciousness and intellect to a combination of earthly elements by His creative command so that a wonderful creation like man came into being; by another excellent act He placed in man’s own organism such a wonderful machinery for the production of similar more men in the future, whose mode of functioning is highly astonishing and amazing.”
[2]
The Arabic word used is Qur’an which literally means ‘recital’ or ‘recitation’.