Imām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī (d. 1391 AH) said:
Some of the atheists once said to one of the scholars of Islām: What is your Lord known by?
He replied: This drop of semen that the large male animals of every species deposit within the womb of their females that Allāh then allows to develop through stages from a drop to a blood clot to a small lump of flesh until the last of its stages of development. Such that it becomes a proportional human being, with fully developed, apparent and unapparent appendages and organs. He possesses the ability to hear sound, the ability to see occurr…
