Question: A person of another faith asks: "If Allah is the Creator, what about humans created through cloning nowadays? Do they not need to worship Allah?" Please explain.
- S. Raja Muhammad, Kayalpattinam
Explanation: Cloning involves taking one of the millions of genes that God has already created within living organisms and cultivating it; this does not constitute an act of creation.
Ask someone to create a living cell or a gene from scratch—using soil or metal, for instance! Humans cannot create even the gene of an ant.
If you take a seed I give you and nurture it with water until it grows, you do not become its creator. Humans merely discover what God has already created; they do not create it themselves.
One could claim a human is doing God's work only if they could create a living cell or gene from clay—material that contains neither—in the same way Allah did. This is something humans can never do.
Therefore, since those created through cloning are also ultimately created by God, they too must worship God.