Tafsir for verse: 32:8
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسۡلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٖ مِّن مَّآءٖ مَّهِينٖ ٨ ﴿8
8Then He made his progeny from a drop of semen, from despised water.
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Commentary

And when the heart of clay was in this form with these meanings, it was a tremendous matter. He indicated it with a tool of distance in His saying: ﴿Then He made his offspring﴾, meaning his child who emerges, ﴿from a lineage﴾, meaning from something extracted, ﴿from weak water﴾, meaning insignificant, weak, and little water that is poured forth. The form 'Fi'il' indicates something that is done. He pointed to the greatness of what comes after that in his creation and development with His saying:

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