"'From it (the earth) have We created you', etc., this is a verse from the
Qur'an and the quotation mark has been wrongly omitted from the text and
should be added after 'time'. Baha'u'llah in quoting this passage seeks to
refute the argument of the Muslims, who attach a purely literal
interpretation to this verse of the Qur'an, and therefore consider it as
implying bodily resurrection. To these Muslims, He says, that you who
literally believe that the human body will return to dust and will be
raised from it again, and therefore attach so much importance to this
mortal world, how then can you wax so proud, and boast over things which
are but perishable and consequently void of any true and lasting value."