Many ayahs in the Qur'an refer to the creation of man...

Many ayahs in the Qur'an refer to the creation of man: "Surely We created them of firm and sticky clay."[^114] The Qur'an expands the circle of causation to cover things which we do not see, and had it not been mentioned by it we would have known nothing about them. The creation of the jinn is also an example of causation. The Qur'an talks of the jinn as real beings who, like man, had been created of a material already existed - a subject which we do not intend to discuss for the time being.

The Qur'an in this respect says: "And the jinn We created before of intensely hot…