Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Said he: “I am not one to submit to a mortal whom Thou hast created from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.”

قَالَ لَمْ اَكُنْ لِاَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍ
Qala lam akun li-asjuda libasharinkhalaqtahu min salsalin min hama-in masnoon
#wordmeaningroot
1qālaHe saidقول
2lamI am not
3akunI am notكون
4li-asjuda(one) to prostrateسجد
5libasharinto a humanبشر
6khalaqtahuwhom You createdخلق
7min(out) of
8ṣalṣālinclayصلصل
9minfrom
10ḥama-inblack mudحما
11masnūninalteredسنن
  • Aisha Bewley

    He said, ‘I will not prostrate to a human being whom You have created out of dried clay formed from fetid black mud. ’

  • Progressive Muslims

    He said: "I am not to submit to a human You have created from a hardened clay. "

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    He replied, "I am not one to bow to man whom You have created from sounding clay out of inorganic matter. "

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Said he: “I am not one to submit to a mortal whom Thou hast created from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.”

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    He said: "I am not to yield to a human being whom You have created from a sludge from hot sediment."

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    He said, "I am not to prostrate to a human You have created from a hardened clay of aged mud."

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    He said, "I am not to prostrate before a human being, whom You created from aged mud, like the potter's clay."

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    "How could I bow, " said he, "before a mortal whom You created from fermented clay dried tingling hard?"

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

    He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud. "

  • Muhammad Asad

    replied: "It is not for me to prostrate myself before mortal man whom Thou hast created out of sounding clay, out of dark slime transmuted!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    He said: I am not one to prostrate myself unto a mortal whom Thou hast created out of potter's clay of black mud altered!

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    He said: "It does not behove of me to prostrate myself before a human being whom You have created out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud."

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    "It is not I", Iblis said, "who would cast himself down in reverence to a human whom You created from dried clay, a product of dark modeling clay that has been polished. "

  • Bijan Moeinian

    He said: "I am not going to prostrate before a being whom You have created from rotten earth. "

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    said: "I am not the one to prostrate myself to a human being, whom You created from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud."

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape."

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    He replied, "It is not for me to prostrate to a human You created from sounding clay moulded from black mud."

  • Taqi Usmani

    He said, "I am not such that I should prostrate myself before a mortal whom You have created from a ringing clay made of decayed mud."

  • Abdul Haleem

    and he answered, ‘I will not bow to a mortal You created from dried clay, formed from dark mud.’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Said he, 'I would never bow myself before a mortal whom Thou hast created of a clay of mud moulded. '

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Said he, 'I would not adore a mortal whom Thou hast created from crackling clay of black mud wrought into form. '

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Said he, "Why should I prostrate myself before a mortal whom you have created from potter's (sound emitting) clay of black mud wrought into form. "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Said he, "Indeed I did not have to prostrate myself to a mortal whom You created of dry clay of mud modeled. "

  • George Sale

    He answered, it is not fit that I should worship man, whom thou hast created of dried clay, of black mud, wrought into shape.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    (Satan) said:" I am not one to prostrate myself to man, (a mere human) whom You (Allah) created from sounding clay; From mud cast into shape. "

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    He replied, `I would never submit to a human being whom You have created from dry ringing clay (formed) from black mud, moulded into shape. '

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Said he, ‘I will not prostrate before a human whom You have created out of a dry clay from an aging mud. ’