[1446] The single soul is Adam, the father of humanity. Then humans were made into ‘drops’ that move from the loins of men, the places of stay (mustaqarr), to the wombs of women, the places of storage (mustawdaʿ) (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). Alternatively, as some exegetes would have it, it could be understood as: a time-limit (mustaqarr) on the surface of the Earth and a resting-place (mustawdaʿ) in its belly after death.