Why Create Human From Clay And Eve From Adam's Rib
God does not need anything, Qur’an makes that clear. It is a matter of choice. God choose to make a creation out of a material and so He did. Simple as that. Now you may argue why He didn’t just make human without material/time then the answer is that human are not by default special that they get special treatment when created. Compared to God and much of His other creations, humans are lowly creation, they need material to originate, the creation of human from material highlights their needs and dependency, not God’s. As for the Eve part, Ghamidi Sahab view is different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYlJnaW8hxk