We certainly created man in travail (kabad).That is, in [a state of] difficulty (mashaqqa) and hardship (shidda).He [also] said:Kabad also means erectness (intiṣāb) — that is, ‘We have created him in the belly [of his mother] keeping him erect’. This resembles Mujāhid’s saying: ‘The child sits in the belly of its mother in a upright position corresponding to the uprightness of the mother, and an angel is delegated, when the mother lies on her side, to raise up the child’s head and if it was not for that it would drown in blood.’His words, Exalted is He: