and when Allah—majestic is His Glory—employs jaʿala with the meaning of khalq (creation), it signifies nothing but creating, standing in place of khalaqa and never departing from (1) that sense. Among (2) the passages in which Allah uses jaʿala in the sense of creating is His saying (3):

“All praise belongs to Allah who created the heavens and the earth and made the darkness and the light” (4)—
meaning: He created the darkness and the light (5).

He also said (6): “We have made the night and the day two signs” (7), i.e., We created the night and the day as two signs; and He said: “and He has made the sun a radiant lamp” (8); and He said: “It is He who created you from a single soul and made from it its spouse” (9), meaning: He created from it its spouse—He created Eve from Adam; and He said: “and He has set therein firm mountains” (10).

There are many such examples in the Quran; all of these and whatever is like them (11) can bear (12) only the sense of creating.

Conversely, His words, “Allah has not made any bahira” (13), do not mean that Allah created a bahira; and His address to Abraham, “Indeed, I am going to make you a leader for mankind” (14), does not mean, “I am going to create you.”