Commentary
And when it indicated the perfection of His knowledge and the completeness of His power by creating man, then by creating what is greater than him, He returned to indicating the creation of man because he is the greatest of the created things and the clearest evidence of Allah, glorified and exalted is He, in another way, clarifying some of what was referred to in the first part of the detail, explicitly stating the resurrection. He said, borrowing the growth for the creation: ﴿And Allah﴾, meaning the greatest King, to whom belongs all command, ﴿brought you forth﴾, meaning by the creation of your father [Adam] blessings and peace be upon him, ﴿from the earth﴾, meaning as plants grow. He expressed this as a reminder to us since it was from the creation of our father Adam, blessings and peace be upon him, because it is the clearest evidence of coming into existence and formation from the earth. He indicated that He made our nourishment from the earth from which He created us, and with that nourishment we grow.
And when their denial of the resurrection was as if it were a denial of the beginning, He confirmed it with the source and made it run without its action by stripping it of the addition, indicating its ease for Him, glorified and exalted is He, and its simplicity, even though it is an innovation and a beginning and a creation. He said: ﴿growth﴾. And with that, the verse is suitable for ambiguity: the mention of 'I bring forth' first indicates the omission of its source secondly, and the mention of 'growth' second indicates the omission of its action first, so that the estimation is: He brought you forth as growth, so you grew as growth.
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