Quran Universe
15:28

وَإِذۡ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّي خَٰلِقُۢ بَشَرٗا مِّن صَلۡصَٰلٖ مِّنۡ حَمَإٖ مَّسۡنُونٖ

Waith qala rabbuka lilmalaikati innee khaliqun basharan min salsalin min hamain masnoonin

And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.

Word by word
  1. وَإِذۡAnd when
  2. قَالَyour Lord said
  3. رَبُّكَyour Lord said
  4. لِلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِto the Angels
  5. إِنِّيIndeed,I
  6. خَٰلِقُۢ(will) create
  7. بَشَرٗاa human being
  8. مِّن(out) of
  9. صَلۡصَٰلٖclay
  10. مِّنۡfrom
  11. حَمَإٖblack mud
  12. مَّسۡنُونٖaltered
Al-Hijr · 15:28Makkah

Allah announced the human before He made him.

The angels were told in advance

The announcement
your Lordspeaks to the angels
announces
a human beingfrom altered black mud
What the announcement shows
an afterthoughthumans just happened
an honormentioned before created

The Prophet ﷺ is told to remember this scene while his people mock him. Ibn Kathir says Allah mentioned Adam to His angels before He created him, and honored him with their prostration. The same scene will show how Iblis refused out of envy and pride.

You are told you were an accident, or you feel like one. The kid nobody planned for, the hire nobody wanted. The human story begins with being announced. You were spoken of before you existed.

I am here by chance, and nobody expected me.

Humans were announced in heaven before they were made; my existence was intended.

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Write one sentence about what you think you were made to do, and keep it on your phone.

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Tafsir Ibn Kathir

And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: "I am going to create a man (Adam) from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud. (28)"So, when I have fashioned him completely and breathed into him (Adam) of My spirit (the soul which I created for him,) then fall down, prostrating yourselves before him. (29)So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together (30)Except Iblis (Shaytan) - he refused to be among the prostrate (31)(Allah) said: "O Iblis! What is your reason for not being among the prostrate? (32)[Iblis] said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to a human, whom You created from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud. (33)

The creation of Adam, the Command to the Angels to prostrate to Him, and the Rebellion of Iblis

Allah informs us of how He mentioned Adam to His angels before He created him, and how He honored him by commanding the angels to prostrate to him. He mentions how His enemy Iblis, amidst all the angels, refused to prostrate to him out of envy, disbelief, stubbornness, arrogance, and false pride. This is why Iblis said:

لَمْ أَكُن لِّأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِن صَلْصَالٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ

(I am not one to prostrate myself to a human, whom You created from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud.) this is like when he said,

قَالَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِينٍ

(I am better than him (Adam), You created me from Fire and him You created from clay.)(7:12) and

أَرَأَيْتَكَ هَٰذَا الَّذِي كَرَّمْتَ عَلَيَّ

("Do you see this one whom You have honored above me...")[17:62]