# Does the Quran support human evolution?

*Quranic verses read in favour of human evolution*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/e6jwtff8smw/s/1/
- Date: 2018-12-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Quran and Evolution -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:49)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jWtFf8smw&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/e6jwtff8smw/

**Topics:** Quran and evolution; Adam and the creation of humans; Human origins

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth reads several verses as arguing for evolution and says Eve is not named in the Quran. No one has to accept evolution, but those who do should not be called heretics.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that, while people may believe what they want about evolution, these Quranic verses clearly argue for it.

**Evidence, his words at 0:39:** “you can believe what you want an eeveelution I'm not saying it's up to you but these verses clearly argue for that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jWtFf8smw&t=39s)

## Longer summary

Responding to someone who spoke against evolution, Mufti Abu Layth goes through verses he says are used in its favour: that Allah created people in stages and grew them from the earth like plants (Nuh), that every living thing was made from water (al-Anbiya 30), and that the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam, created from dust and then told 'be' (Al Imran 59), which he reads as Adam being created first and only then commanded. He discusses al-Mu'minun 12-13 on an extract of clay and a drop in a stable place, noting the exegetes' confusion over how Adam could be in a womb and the reply of proponents of evolution such as Abd al-Sabur Shahin [?]. He says Eve is not mentioned in the Quran but in some hadith, that the verses on creation from a single soul never name Adam and use a feminine word, and that al-A'raf 189-190, where the couple commit shirk, makes little sense of Adam unless it speaks of someone before him. He reads khalifah in al-Baqarah 30 as succeeding other hominins, and closes that no one has to accept evolution, though genetics has made it pretty much a scientific fact, but believers in it should not be called heretics or accused of devaluing the Quran.

## Sources and names cited

- Quran 71:14 (He created you in stages): https://quran.com/71/14
- Quran 71:17 (Allah grew you from the earth like plants): https://quran.com/71/17
- Quran 21:30 (the heavens and earth were one; every living thing from water): https://quran.com/21/30
- Quran 3:59 (the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam): https://quran.com/3/59
- Quran 23:12-13 (insan from an extract of clay, then a drop in a stable place): https://quran.com/23/12-13
- Quran 7:189-190 (the single self and its partner; they committed shirk): https://quran.com/7/189-190
- Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth): https://quran.com/2/30
- Adam
- Isa (Jesus)
- Maryam (Mary)
- Hawwa (Eve)
- al-Tabari [?]
- Abd al-Sabur Shahin [?]
- shirk

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–9:49)

[0:00] then he spoke about evolution even though the verses of the Koran say work on halakhah come at whare in surah Noor that Allah created you in stages Allah mentions in surah noor verse 17 wallah Who am but a communal or dinner Berta Allah glue you like plants out of the earth now what is that talking about and then Allah says in surah al-anbiya verse 30 I will Emir alladhina carefulness a Marathi well herb can attack what do they not see how everything was like as one and then we cleft in asunder and

[0:39] that was all nominal man equal machine hey FLI you mean I'm from water from a common water we created all sources of life do they not see this yet they do not bring faith that's verse 30 of surah al-anbiya how is this aunty once again look you can believe what you want an eeveelution I'm not saying it's up to you but these verses clearly argue for that I'm just saying why are these people deviance or heretics or new prophets how it makes no sense whatsoever and as the verse in surah al-e-imran in the mythology signed the like a Maithili Adam a challah

[1:19] comment Robin from a hollow come fiyaquun' the example of Jesus is like that of Adam he created him that's in Ali Imran verse 59 he created him from dust and said be and he was well we know that's not true for first of all for Jesus because if Jesus is like Adam then Jesus had a mum then that means Adam must have had a mother and then you're gonna say well no well that's not the case Adam didn't have a mother so when how is he like Jesus and then you're saying well he created him from dust well you know Jesus wasn't created from dust and then you say oh no but it

[1:58] was the command being it is and he said yeah but let's just go to that verse Holika whom Interop he first of all created him then said be so look Holika home enter RB create him from dust some after a time had elapsed said to him allah llahu kun fiyaquun' but he created him first he wasn't created with the sudden be because then why would why would Mary be pregnant why didn't it why wasn't he

[2:35] just created what was the whole purpose elastic Holika whom he created him then said be and he was right so right so that's some of these things which I think are important to really truly was just seeing here there was another

[3:06] important verse I want you to pay attention to this this is sort of taught me known on evolution right Allah speaks right verse 12 and 13 this is incredibly important right on surah told me known Allah says well I've got jalapeno in sanam insularity maintain we created in son from a gooey kind of substance of clay and many people said that this extract this kind of soul a sorry a gooey extract many people today say that is

[3:44] DNA that is being referred to maintain most of them of a serene say that this by the way ends on you can check bobbery and all these are the books they say in Sarnia is Adam well Akkad jalapeno in sanam insularity maintain created Adam they say so much Allah who then we placed him him not fatten the karate machine we made him a drop a droplet and not fight is usually a droplet of sperm

[4:19] the Ferrari machine in a stable which is the womb or in a stable place now some of them here the more serene get confused because if the first one was Adam then how was Adam in a room so here some of them say maybe this is talking now the second who is talking about people in general other people said no maybe Adam was created and then placed in an artificial womb like a love created a wound like structure and put him in it and then those people who argued for

[4:57] evolution like the tore up the reversible Shaheen and other people they said well why if if wounds were already available why would Allah create an artificial womb like structure so look these are verses of the Quran that are being used they're not like somebody's not bringing this out of thin air so I think that's really important the second key factor that Sharia so-called he went to was about the Quran Ian and I agree with him here that look and by the way on the evolution point yes oh god he said Allah clearly mentioned in the Quran about Adam and

[5:36] Hawwa and anybody who disagrees with this first of all how ah is not mentioned in any verse of the Quran okay there is no mention of Eve in the Quran just to clarify that for sure he has a car this I've damaged barakah to come on alia there is no mention of Eve in the Quran Eve is mentioned in some hadith in the Quran Allah mentioned that about five or six places wallack nakum mean F Simha he that we created you from a single soul in none of those verses does he ever mention that to be Adam so any verse in which Allah mentions the origin of mankind that we created you from a

[6:15] single soul and from it we made many are from and you know from it or its partner we set forth many Adam is never mentioned in those verses then the word Adam although the name Adam is used on countless occasions in the Quran but never used way of life speaking about we created you all from Adam and so on like that in these verses well I gotta lock now come in Neffs in wahid and so on that is just it always just says from a self another interesting verse is one of them I don't let me see if I've highlighted here

[6:55] somewhere with bringing up if it is here right see oh this is an interesting verse in surat al-a'raf and you cannot share here sir copy this that you see who only the halacha come in not saying yhay they created you from a single self and by the way this is always feminine whenever is used it is never masculine created you from a single self a feminine self Raja al-amin has o jam from it created it's the feminine its partner so he may find compassion or sorry may find tranquility in her fellow

[7:35] Mottola shahe when he covered her intimately sexually she became pregnant for Hamlet's be Hamlin for Hamlet Hamlin - she carried she was off child for Margaret to be out as time went by when it became when she became heavily pregnant fell in my ask Allah that Allah a bomber they cried out to the Lord like in our tightness Allah Hanlin a cooling I'm gonna say Kenan if you give us a pious child we will be grateful fell in my art our masala hand when he gave them either a pious or a fully beta body in able-bodied a sound child when he gave

[8:12] them a sound child jalalahu Shalaka they committed with Allah most mother city and say that's Adam how is that Adam why is Adam committing shook and then they say oh he only committed shirk in name like he decided to name his child after another God but he didn't believe he he just named it what a stupid thing to say why would Adam Ali salam be committing it doesn't make any sense unless this person that is being spoken of is from before Adam

[8:52] right another interesting thing is in EJ don't fill all the Khalifah I will play something halifa means something that comes at the end of on earth the end of you the end of the other hominins that will succeed the other hominins so this that's that's those who are all doing in favor of evolution and look if you don't want to accept evolution you don't have to although it is pretty much a scientific fact now through genetics that we are connected all of life on earth is connected so but don't call

[9:30] people who do believe that the world around us is you know it's something a lot oldest to explore when it is reconcilable with the quran don't tell us that that is somehow devaluing the program right now

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment e6jWtFf8smw/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/e6jwtff8smw/s/1/

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