The Beginning of the Earth and Humankind in Islam Everything including your life, your car, your company, and even your country, had a beginning and its cause or source can be traced to a certain entity. How about the mankind and the earth? These too! How did they begin and who created them? Different religions offer different answers to this question. In Islam, the Holy Quran explains this matter in detail. The Holy Quran is the source of “Sharia�, Islamic religious law, Prophetic decrees, and the blessings God bestowed upon mankind. Interestingly, most of the present-day scientific discoveries about the universe were revealed in the Holy Quran more than 1,400 years ago.