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Surah as-Sajdah (The Prostration) 32 : 9

ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰهُ وَنَفَخَ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِهِۦ ۖ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَ وَٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةَ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul and made for you hearing and vision and hearts [i.e., intellect]; little are you grateful.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(32:9:1)
(32:9:2)
sawwāhu
He fashioned him
(32:9:3)
wanafakha
and breathed
(32:9:4)
(32:9:5)
(32:9:6)
rūḥihi
His spirit
(32:9:7)
wajaʿala
and made
(32:9:8)
(32:9:9)
l-samʿa
the hearing
(32:9:10)
wal-abṣāra
and the sight
(32:9:11)
wal-afidata
and feelings
(32:9:12)
qalīlan
little
(32:9:13)
(32:9:14)
tashkurūna
thanks you give

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Explanatory Note

The gulf between the first and the final stages is great indeed. This is expressed in the Qur’ān in a single verse: “Then He fashions him and breathes into him of His spirit. Thus He endows you, mankind, with hearing and sight and hearts.”

It is indeed a great miracle, but people are often heedless of it. How far removed is that tiny drop of fluid from the creature it develops into. No power could have done this other than God who directs the single cell along its way of growth and development to make such a highly complex creature.

It is God that has made man and breathed of His spirit into him. This is the only explanation for this miraculous event. It is that breath of divine spirit that makes that biological entity a human being with hearing, sight and understanding, and which distinguishes it from all other biological entities: “Thus He endows you, mankind, with hearing and sight and hearts.” Any other explanation of this miraculous event that fills us with wonder is inadequate. Despite all this, people are often ungrateful: “Yet seldom are you grateful!”

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From the style of the Surah it appears that it was sent down during the early-middle Makkah period. This is due to little reference of the severity of the persecution and tyranny which one finds in the Surahs sent down in the later stages.

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