تفسير : (createth man) i.e. the son of adam (from a clot) and the prophet (pbuh) said: “what shall i read?” and gabriel read to him the first four verses of this surah.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : created man (al-insān: the generic) from a blood-clot (‘alaq is the plural of ‘alaqa, which is a small quantity of congealing blood).
