It says...
It says: “And one of His signs is that He created you from dust, and then, behold, you are human beings scattered (in the world).” In this verse two signs of the greatness of Allah (s.w.t.) are pointed out: one is the creation of man from dust, which may be a hint to the creation of the first man, i.e. Adam, or the creation of all humankind from dust, because foodstuff, which constructs the man’s being, directly or indirectly, is wholly taken from dust.
The second matter is the increase of man and that Adam’s children are scattered throughout the earth. If the speciality of scattering human beings were not created in Adam’s offspring, man would be destroyed soon and his posterity could be vanished. Verily, how far is the distance between the dust and the man with these delicacies!
If we compare the delicate curtains inside the eye, which are more delicate, sensitive and tender than a petal, or the extraordinary delicate and sensitive cells of mind, with dust we will then understand how Excellent is the Lord Who has applied an amazing power to produce such sensitive, exact, and worthy systems from dust, a dark and worthless matter? Dust itself has neither light, nor warmth, nor beauty, nor freshness, nor movement, but it is the origin of man with these wonderful qualities.
The One Who, from such a dead being that is counted as the lowest beings, produces a wonderful living creature such as man, is worthy of any kind of praise for this His endless power and knowledge: “…Blessed be Allah, the Best of the creators.” [^4] By the way, this statement points to this fact that there is no difference between human beings and the origin of all of them is one thing.
All human beings have an unbreakable relation with dust and, naturally, they all will finally return to the dust, too. It is noteworthy that in the Arabic language the word /’iŏa/ is usually used for the things which often suddenly occur. The application of it here may point to the fact that Allah gave such an ability of proliferation to man that in a short time suddenly his progeny scattered throughout the world and brought the organized human society into being.