Translation of the meanings Ayah 98 Surah Al-An‘ām - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 98

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَنشَأَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ فَمُسۡتَقَرّٞ وَمُسۡتَوۡدَعٞۗ قَدۡ فَصَّلۡنَا ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِ لِقَوۡمٖ يَفۡقَهُونَ

(98) He is the One Who initiated you from a single soul, then ˹you move on from˺ a place of stay to a place of storage^[1446]; indeed We have detailed the Signs for those who discern.

[1446] The single soul is Adam, the father of humanity. Then humans were made into ‘drops’ that move from the loins of men, the places of stay (mustaqarr), to the wombs of women, the places of storage (mustawdaʿ) (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). Alternatively, as some exegetes would have it, it could be understood as: a time-limit (mustaqarr) on the surface of the Earth and a resting-place (mustawdaʿ) in its belly after death.