Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

When He has created you in stages?

وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ اَطْوَاراً
Waqad khalaqakum atwara
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1waqadAnd indeed
2khalaqakumHe created youخلق
3aṭwāran(in) stagesطور
  • Aisha Bewley

    when He created you by successive stages?

  • Progressive Muslims

    "While He created you in stages"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Knowing that He has created you in successive stages.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    When He has created you in stages?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    "While He created you in stages?"

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    "While He created you in stages?"

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    He is the One who created you in stages.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Knowing that He has created you by various stages?

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

    While He has created you in stages?

  • Muhammad Asad

    seeing that He has created you in successive stages?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When He created you by (divers) stages?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    when He has created you in stages?*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    , When His creation evinces both wisdom and Omnipotence. It was He Who created you not only in an orderly manner, but also in progressive stages; from a notfa amshag -zygote- and a clinging organism. you become a rudimentary being -embryo- then you come to be a developing being -foetus- then you come out of the womb a new-born babe, then you grow to maturity. Similarly -and in amore general sense- did He create the universe, from the gaseous stage to the stage of concentration then to the final stage of solidification of cosmic matter and the animate beings from the unicellular to the multicellular to the organific,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The One Who brought you to the present stage after passing you through different stages of creation and phases of development.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    While He has created you in (different) stages .

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    when He truly created you in stages ˹of development˺?

  • Taqi Usmani

    while He has created you in different phases?

  • Abdul Haleem

    when He has created you stage by stage?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    seeing He created you by stages?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    when He has created you by steps?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    "'Seeing that He has created you through various stages.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And He already created you by stages?

  • George Sale

    since He hath created you variously?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    " ‘Seeing that it is He Who has created you in many different stages?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    `Whereas He has created you by (passing you through) various stages (and endowed you with different qualities).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    though He has created you in stages?