Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And We created man from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍۚ
Walaqad khalaqna al-insana minsalsalin min hama-in masnoon
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1walaqadAnd verily
2khalaqnāWe createdخلق
3l-insānahumankindانس
4min(out) of
5ṣalṣālinsounding clayصلصل
6minfrom
7ḥama-inblack mudحما
8masnūninalteredسنن
  • Aisha Bewley

    We created mankind out of dried clay formed from fetid black mud.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And We have created man from a clay hardened and shaped.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And, indeed, We created man from sounding clay, out of dark inorganic matter. (37:11).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And We created man from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    AndWe have created man from a sludge from hot sediment.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    We have created the human being from hardened clay of aged mud.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    We created the human being from aged mud, like the potter's clay.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Man We fashioned from fermented clay dried tingling hard,

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

    And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.

  • Muhammad Asad

    AND, INDEED, We have created man out of sounding clay, out of dark-slime transmuted

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Verily We created man of potter's clay of black mud altered,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Surely We brought man into being out of dry ringing clay which was wrought from black mud,

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And We created man from dried clay, a product of dark modelling clay that has been polished.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    I created man from an aged mud (like the one used in the pottery. )

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And indeed, We created man from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Indeed, We created man from sounding clay moulded from black mud.

  • Taqi Usmani

    Indeed We created man from a ringing clay made of decayed mud.

  • Abdul Haleem

    We created man out of dried clay formed from dark mud-

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Surely We created man of a clay of mud moulded,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And we did create man from crackling clay of black mull wrought in form.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And We did create man from potter's (or sound emitting) clay of black mud wrought into form.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And indeed We already created man of dry clay of mud modeled.

  • George Sale

    We created man of dried clay, of black mud, formed into shape:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And indeed, We created man from dried clay (earth) that is capable of making sounds, from mud cast into shapes;

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Surely, We created human being from dry ringing clay, (transformed) from black mud moulded into shape.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Certainly We created man out of a dry clay from an aging mud,