Surah 30:20
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وَمِنۡ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنۡ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ إِذَآ أَنتُم بَشَرٞ تَنتَشِرُونَ
(One) of His signs is that He created you from dust, and now you are human beings spreading (far and wide).
وَمِنۡ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنۡ خَلَقَ لَكُم مِّنۡ أَنفُسِكُمۡ أَزۡوَٰجٗا لِّتَسۡكُنُوٓاْ إِلَيۡهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيۡنَكُم مَّوَدَّةٗ وَرَحۡمَةًۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
(Another) of His signs is that He created spouses for you from yourselves, so that you may live with them, and He has established love and mercy between you. Surely in that are signs indeed for a people who reflect.
Allah says:
{And among His signs} - which speak of His might and power, is the fact that He created your father Adam out of dust.
Allah said:
meaning, ‘He created females of your own kind, to be wives for you.’
{that you may find repose in them,} This is like the Ayah,
This refers to Hawwa'. Allah created her from Adam, from the short rib on his left. If Allah had made all of Adam’s progeny male, and created the females from another kind, such as from Jinn or animals, there would never have been harmony between them and their spouses. There would have been revulsion if the spouses had been from a different kind. Out of Allah’s perfect mercy He made their wives from their own kind, and created love and kindness between them. For a man stays with a woman because he loves her, or because he feels compassion towards her if they have a child together, or because she needs him to take care of her, etc.
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 7, Page 533)