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16 THE stated explicitly in the premises. This argument is composed of two types of premises, i. e. conditional and exceptive. As such, a verse of the Holy Quran that is based on this manner of reasoning is found in Surah az-Zumar, part 23, as follows: يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِّنْ بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ فِي ظُلُمَةٍ ثلث ذلِكُمُ اللهُ رَبِّكُمْ That is, He creates you in the wombs of your mothers under the darkness of three veils, and the perfect wisdom working behind this is that He bestows upon you one kind of creation and then bestows upon you another kind of creation. In other words, He gives every organ a different shape and bestows upon it differ- ent qualities and capabilities. Then, He blows life into a lifeless object. Neither does darkness stop Him from accomplishing His task, nor is it difficult for Him to create different kinds of organs with diverse capabilities, nor does He face any difficulty or incur a loss in eternally continuing the process of creation. This is why He says, 2 ذلِكُمُ الله رَبِّكُمْ In other words, it is He who eternally keeps this system of nature in function; hence He is God your Lord. In other words, this Perfect Omnipotence proves that He is the Perfect Lord who can 1. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in three-fold darkness. This is Allah, your Lord. (Surah az-Zumar, 39:7) [Publisher] 2. That is Allah, your Lord. (Surah az-Zumar, 39:7) [Publisher]