Zaki have you ever got a chance to see a mentally compromised person? A mentally compromised (paagal, junooni) human being acts just like non-human primates. I work at Yerkes National Primate Center, and spend time with monkeys and observe them very closely on everyday basis. When Quran says that those human beings were made into monkeys does not mean literally they got transformed into monkeys. All Allah had to do was to take his spirit (rooh) out of them, and a spiritless human being would act just like monkeys. The only quality that distinguishes a human being from rest of the animals is his sense of differentiating between good and evil and this is because of the 'rooh'.
There are people who say that long ago man was a monkey and he evolved. Is this true? Is there any evidence?.
Praise be to Allaah.
This view is not correct, and the evidence for that is that Allaah has described in the Quraan the stages of the creation of Adam. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
Verily, the likeness of Eesa (Jesus) before Allaah is the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: Be! and he was
[Aal Imraan 3:59]
This dust was moistened until it became sticky mud or clay that stuck to the hands. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth)
[al-Muminoon 23:12]
Verily, We created them of a sticky clay
[al-Saaffaat 37:12]
Then it became dried (sounding) clay of altered mud. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
And indeed, We created man from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud
[al-Hijr 15:26]
Then when it dried it became sounding clay like the clay of pottery. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery
[al-Rahmaan 55:14]
Then Allaah moulded it into the form that He wanted and breathed into him (his) soul created by Him. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
(Remember) when your Lord said to the angels: Truly, I am going to create man from clay.
So when I have fashioned him and breathed into him (his) soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him
[Saad 38:71-72]
These are the stages through which the creation of Adam passed according to the Quraan. As for the stages of creation which the progeny of Adam pass through, Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman).
Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So Blessed is Allaah, the Best of creators
[al-Muminoon 23:12-14]
With regard to the wife of Adam Hawwa (Eve) Allaah tells us that He created her from him, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women
[al-Nisa 4:1]
