Commentary ...

Verily Allah is Ail-Powerful over every thing." Commentary: All of creatures are created by His will. In this noble verse, one of the main aspects of creation system, which is one of the most obvious reasons of monotheism, that is the issue of life with its various forms, reference has been made to. It says: "And Allah has created every animal from water; ..." All of them are made of water, but they have different and wonderful forms; "...

so of them is (a kind) that walks upon its belly and (a kind) that walks upon two legs and (a kind) that walks upon four. ..." Yet this is not limited to these things and life has got extraordinarily various forms, including creatures that live in the sea, or insects that have thousands species and thousands faces. Therefore in the end of the verse, the Qur'an says: "... Allah creates what He pleases.

Verily Allah is All-Powerful over every thing." Some Points: First: There are different opinions about the matter that the verse under discussion refers to what kind of 'water'. There are three commentaries on it: A) The purpose of water is the drop of seed. Many of commentators have chosen this commentary and in some narrations it has been referred to, too. The problem that this commentary faces with is that not all creatures are created from the drop of seed.

For there are unicellular organisms and some other animals that are the extensions of animal and are created through cell division, an asexual reproduction, and it must be said that the above subject has got a typical aspect, not a common and general aspect. B) The purpose of it is the creation of the first creature, for according to some Islamic narrations, the first creature that Allah created was water and men were created after water.

Moreover, according to the new scientific theories, the first sign of life appeared in the seas and this phenomenon ruled in the depth of seas or in the shallows of seas before it appeared anywhere else.