Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Then He made his progeny of an extraction of despised water;

ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُ مِنْ سُلَالَةٍ مِنْ مَٓاءٍ مَه۪ينٍۚ
Thumma jaAAala naslahu min sulalatinmin ma-in maheen
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1thummaThen
2jaʿalaHe madeجعل
3naslahuhis progenyنسل
4minfrom
5sulālatinan extractسلل
6minof
7māinwaterموه
8mahīnindespisedمهن
  • Aisha Bewley

    then produced his seed from an extract of base fluid;

  • Progressive Muslims

    Then He made his offspring from a structure derived from a lowly liquid.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Then He made him to be reproduced out of the essence of a humble fluid. (The inorganic matter was hydrated and from its extract life was initiated. Eventually, the evolution reached a point when procreation with male and female gametes was established (37:11)).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Then He made his progeny of an extraction of despised water;

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Then He made his offspring from a structure derived from a lowly liquid.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Then He made his offspring from a structure derived from an insignificant liquid.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Then He continued his reproduction through a certain lowly liquid.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then made his offspring from the extract of base fluid,

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained.

  • Muhammad Asad

    then He causes him to be begotten out of the essence of a humble fluid;

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Then He made his seed from a draught of despised fluid;

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    then made his progeny from the extract of a mean fluid,*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And He made his posterity emerge from a lineage of a contemptible watery fluid.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Then He designed the man’s reproductive procedure to be carried on through a lowly liquid.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then He made his offspring from semen of despised water (male and female sexual discharge).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised:

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Then He made his descendants from an extract of a humble fluid,

  • Taqi Usmani

    Then He made his progeny from a drop of semen, from despised water.

  • Abdul Haleem

    then made his descendants from an extract of underrated fluid.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    then He fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    then He made his stock from an extract of despicable water;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from dust.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Thereafter He made his progeny of an extraction of contemptible water;

  • George Sale

    and afterwards made his posterity of an extract of despicable water;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then He made his (the human race) children (of Adam) from the purest and essential part (of life, namely sperm) with the nature of a fluid held in low regard:

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Then He created his seed from an extract of an insignificant fluid (derived by his consuming food produced from clay or soil).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Then He made his progeny from an extract of a base fluid.