Clear:
The questions and answers might be as follows:
I would answer: Yes, there are hundreds if not thousands of Judao/christian writings; older traditions, pseudographia and many discuss the Lord God's plan of sending spirits to earth; the nature of those spirits; the purposes and methods of physical creation, as well as pre-creation controversies in heaven. Because of the vast quantity of data, one must limit discussions to specific themes. I then ask what the Muslim specifically wanted to know about.
Earliest writings indicate a creation from disorganized matter and NOT from "nothing". That is, the Lord God took of disorganized matter and organized it into all physical creations. The earliest writings do NOT support "magical" creation, or creation from "nothing", though creation from "nothing" has become the more popular tradition in modern christianity.
Clear
what do you mean by pseudographia? I don't understand what you mean by it in the context you have written-- to me is it is the production
of meaningless written symbols imitating letters, the written equivalent of jargon aphasia!
by definition Jargon aphasia is a fluent or receptive aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them-- this unfortunately may result following a stroke ...
So I am not sure how the above can be used to describe G-D's plan for pre-creation? I'd be reluctant to accept writing that is less than lucid to describe the plan of a supreme being!...
further complicated by the need of G-D to work from disorganized matter.. well--from where did this disorganized matter come? What do you mean by that.. and how it is "magical" to believe that G-D created all of it.. as opposed to working from "Organized matter" which somehow he later fashioned.. in both cases a supreme being creates something... I am a little hesitant to see how your concept is superior to the ISlamic perspective? in fact it leaves me with an answered question of where the disorganized matter came from? Was there a bigger G-D that left a lesser G-D with disorganized matter to work with? It is absolutely nonsensical to me..
I'll use verses from two different (suras)chapters in the Quran to give you an Islamic perspective on "creation"...
Say: "Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth?" Say: "(It is) Allah." Say: "Do ye then take (for worship) protectors other than Him, such as have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?" Say: "Are the blind equal with those who see? Or the depths of darkness equal with Light?" Or do they assign to Allah partners who have created (anything) as He has created, so that the creation seemed to them similar? Say: "Allah is the Creator of all things: He is the One, the Supreme and Irresistible." Ar-Ra'd 13 16
Another can be found in Sura 52
فَلْيَأْتُوا بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِ إِن كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ {34
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[Yusufali 52:34] Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak the truth!
[Pickthal 52:34] Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.
أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ {35}
[Yusufali 52:35] Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?
[Pickthal 52:35] Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators?
أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ {36
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[Yusufali 52:36] Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.
[Pickthal 52:36] Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they are sure of nothing!
أَمْ عِندَهُمْ خَزَائِنُ رَبِّكَ أَمْ هُمُ الْمُصَيْطِرُونَ {37
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[Yusufali 52:37] Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?
[Pickthal 52:37] Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord? Or have they been given charge (thereof)?
أَمْ لَهُمْ سُلَّمٌ يَسْتَمِعُونَ فِيهِ فَلْيَأْتِ مُسْتَمِعُهُم بِسُلْطَانٍ مُّبِينٍ {38
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[Yusufali 52:38] Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.
[Pickthal 52:38] Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!
If the answers given to you were unsatisfactory then I'd stick with your explanation as pleases your heart and mind and as fits with your life style..
peace!
