The one being in all of creation, the human, who accepted the burden of knowledge, was created from the most valuable substance on the face of the earth, without which there would be no life -   صَلۡصَٰل  مِّنۡ حَمَإٖ مَّسۡنُونٖ salsaalim min hama-im masnoon  ringing clay, made of mire, black with decay  Surah Hijr (15:26, 15:29, 15:33)