The religion of Islam is a religion of moderation that rejects exaggeration and extremism in rulings, and moderation does means to stand in the middle between truth and falsehood, moderation is ease in rulings so that the Prophet (saws) said:
“Beware! The extremists perished,” saying it three times.[1]
This verse is honoring the Prophet Issa (Jesus) PBUH. Islam states that he is a messenger of Allah (swt) and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul created at a command from Him. The Holy Quran as well states that his birth was by a miracle; that is without a father:
إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَىٰ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ كَمَثَلِ ءَادَمَۖ خَلَقَهُۥ مِن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ
(Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allāh is like that of Adam. He created him from dust; then He said to him, “Be,” and he was.) (Ali-Imran: 59)
Allah (swt) has created Adam (PBUH) from none:
مَّآ أَشۡهَدتُّهُمۡ خَلۡقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَا خَلۡقَ أَنفُسِهِمۡ وَمَا كُنتُ مُتَّخِذَ ٱلۡمُضِلِّينَ عَضُدٗا
(I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants) (Al-Kahf: 51)
We did not witness the first creation, the creation of Adam (PBUH), who was created without a father and a mother, Allah (swt) created him from dust as stated in many verses in the Holy Qur’an, so when Allah (swt) speaks about the Prophet Jesus (PBUH), He gives an example of Adam (PBUH) whom we have not witnessed his creation, but when science developed, we recognized the reversal of the process of life, that is the death. When a person dies, the end is the opposite of the beginning; first, the soul comes out of him, and then his body hardens and becomes clay, and then dissolves into dust, Allah (swt) says:
مِنۡهَا خَلَقۡنَٰكُمۡ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمۡ وَمِنۡهَا نُخۡرِجُكُمۡ تَارَةً أُخۡرَىٰ
(From it [i.e., the earth] We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.) (Ta-ha: 55)
Allah (swt) says, as well:
وَجَعَلۡنَا مِنَ ٱلۡمَآءِ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ حَيٍّۚ أَفَلَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ
(and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) (Al-Anbiya: 30 )
With the progress of science, they found that sixty percent of the human body is water. Eighty percent of it is water in the blood, as well as in the muscles. As for the bones, it is twenty percent, and the brain is eighty-five percent. It has also been scientifically proven that the components of the earth from which we were created are the same as those of humans; oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, iron, iodine and manganese…
However as mentioned, Allah (swt) says about Jesus (PBUH):
إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَىٰ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ كَمَثَلِ ءَادَمَۖ خَلَقَهُۥ مِن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ
(Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allāh is like that of Adam. He created him from dust; then He said to him, “Be,” and he was.) (Ali-Imran: 59)
(… إِنَّمَا ٱلۡمَسِيحُ عِيسَى ٱبۡنُ مَرۡيَمَ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ وَكَلِمَتُهُۥٓ أَلۡقَىٰهَآ إِلَىٰ مَرۡيَمَ وَرُوحٞ مِّنۡهُۖ…) (…The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allāh and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him.…): So there was the blow into Maryam’s garment through the angel Gabriel, and by the word (Be).
[1] Sahih Muslim: The Book of Knowledge, Hadith No. 2670.