And when it was as if it was said: How did He teach him, and it is a characteristic of His attributes and for whom He taught him? He said, beginning anew or explaining: "He created man," meaning: He determined him and brought him into existence in this known form and described composition, distinct from all inanimate things, and his origin is from them, then from the rest of the living beings, then from other animals. And He made him into kinds, and He distinguished between each people by their language from those other than them. And His creation of them is a proof of His creation of everything that exists. "Indeed, We created everything with measure" [Al-Qamar: 49]. And although man is a name of a genus, the one most deserving of being intended by this is the first of them, which is Adam, peace be upon him. And his intention - as Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with both of them, said - does not prevent the intention of the genus from where it is.