of plants by dissolving hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, sulphur, potassium, iron, calcium, and magnesium. Thus, many types of plants began to grow where Allah Almighty had preordained them.

....TOWARDS THE CREATION OF HUMANS
....Once upon a time, there was no such thing as a human being. The Earth was a beautiful, natural world, full of different types of animals and plants living in their natural surroundings.
....Animals with no free will and limited intelligence that had been created from water, air, fire, and soil, the 'Anasir-i Arba'ah (the four essential elements), were fighting with each other and bustling about eating, breathing, nesting, breeding, and raising babies.
....However, the angels, that had minds, consciousness, and spirituality, created from light (noor), were mentioning the names of Allah Almighty and instantly fulfilling His commands with great pleasure.
....Allah Almighty intended to create a new being by conjoining these two opposite creatures and declared this to the angels:
...."And when your Lord said to the angels, I am going to place on the Earth avicegerent, they said: What! wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood, and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I know what you do not know." (Baqara, 30)
One of the duties of the angels was to manage the events in the material world according to the will of Allah