Adam's descendants latent in him

Sha'rawi holds that the plural address in the verse on creation shows that Adam's descendants were latent in his loins at creation, and that all of them were in him ¹.

He describes life as a continuous chain, in which each person takes from the one before and gives to the one after, and a break in the chain would stop life ². He says each person has a part of Adam, and that the lives of those now living are joined to Adam ².

He holds that the angels prostrated to Adam and to his descendants until the Hour, because the descendants were latent in his loins, and that the verse adds a new part to the account of creation ².

This is Sha'rawi's reading. His remarks on cells and molecules are not to be treated as scientific findings until checked against named sources. No academic or other tafsir reading is set out here and none is checked.