Surah 25. Al-Furqan, Ayah 54

I.e., has enabled him to attribute spiritual value to, and to derive strength from, his organic and social relationships.

See second half of 21:30 where the creation of "every living thing out of water" is spoken of, as well as 24:45 , which mentions in this connection the entire animal world (including, of course, man).

 The mixture of sperm and egg.

The basis of all living matter in the physical world, protoplasm, is water: Cf. xxiv. 45 and xxi. 30, and notes thereon.

Water is a fluid, unstable thing: yet from it arises the highest form of life known to us, in this world, man. And man has not only the functions and characteristics of the noblest animals, but his abstract relationships are also typical of his highest nature. He can trace lineage and pedigree, and thus remember and commemorate a long line of ancestors, to whom he is bound by ties of piety, which no mere animals can do. Further, there is the union in marriage: it is not only like the physical union of animals, but it gives rise to relationships arising out of the sexes of individuals who were not otherwise related to each other. These are physical and social facts.