The claim that the Prophet was created from light

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some of the people of falsehood say that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was created from light, and they cite as evidence His saying, the Exalted:

There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book.

قَدْ جَاءَكُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:15]

Here, the light is the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

Answer:
The verse did not say that He created him from light; it says it came to you

has come to you from Allah a light

جَاءَكُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:15]

. The Messenger is light through his message and his calling, not light in his creation or his body. No one says this except the people of misguidance. Is Muhammad not from the descendants of Adam? If you say no, that is problematic. If you say the ones created from light are only the angels,

I created the angels from light, and I created the jinn from fire, and I created Adam and his descendants from

خلقت الملائكة من نور وخلقت الجن من النار وخلق آدم ذريته مما

. He mentioned to you that they are from clay. No, not Muhammad or anyone else; they are all created from clay and from lowly water. This is misguidance, and I seek refuge in Allah. This is exaggeration, and what leads to it is exaggeration regarding the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Some of them say that he was created before Adam. This is the exaggeration, the statement of the exaggerators regarding the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-03-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (43:48)

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