15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 28
وَاِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلٰٓئِكَةِ اِنّ۪ي خَالِقٌ بَشَراً مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍ
Wa-ith qala rabbuka lilmala-ikatiinnee khaliqun basharan min salsalin min hama-inmasnoon
When your Lord said to the angels, ‘I am creating a human being out of dried clay formed from fetid black mud
- Progressive Muslims
And your Lord said to the Angels: "I am creating a human from a hardened clay. "
- Shabbir Ahmed
Recall when your Sustainer said to the angels, "Behold, I am about to create a mortal man out of inorganic matter. " (2:30-35), (7:11-22), (17:61), (19:21), (20:116-120).
- Sam Gerrans
And when thy Lord said to the angels: “I am creating a mortal from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted,
- The Monotheist Group
Andyour Lord said to the angels: "I am creating a human being from a sludge from hot sediment."
- Edip-Layth
Your Lord said to the controllers: "I am creating a human from hardened clay of aged mud."
- Aisha Bewley
When your Lord said to the angels, ‘I am creating a human being out of dried clay formed from fetid black mud
- Rashad Khalifa
Your Lord said to the angels, "I am creating a human being from aged mud, like the potter's clay.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
But when your Lord said to the angels: "I am verily going to create a human being from fermented clay dried tingling hard;
- Sahih International
And [mention, O Muúammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.
- Muhammad Asad
And lo! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: "Behold, I am about to create mortal man out of sounding clay, out of dark slime transmuted;
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And (remember) when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am creating a mortal out of potter's clay of black mud altered,
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And for once did Allah say to the angels: I am on the point of creating a human from dried clay, the product of dark modelling clay that has been polished.
- Bijan Moeinian
I said to the angles: "I am going to create a human being from dried clay of rotten earth. "
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: "I am going to create a man (Adam) from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;
- Mustafa Khattab
˹Remember, O Prophet˺ when your Lord said to the angels, "I am going to create a human being from sounding clay moulded from black mud.[1]
- Taqi Usmani
Recall when your Lord said to the angels, "I am going to create a human being from a ringing clay made of decayed mud.
- Abdul Haleem
Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I will create a mortal out of dried clay, formed from dark mud.
- Arthur John Arberry
And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded.
- E. Henry Palmer
And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'Verily, I am creating a mortal from crackling clay of black mud wrought into shape;
- Hamid S. Aziz
When your Lord said to the angels, "Verily, I am creating a mortal from (sound-emitting) clay of black mud wrought into shape;
- Mahmoud Ghali
And as your Lord said to the Angels, "Surely I am creating a mortal of dry clay of mud modeled.
- George Sale
And remember when thy Lord said unto the angels, verily I am about to create man of dried clay, of black mud, wrought into shape;
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And remember! Your Lord said to the angels: "I am going to create man, from dried sounding clay from mud cast into shape;
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And (recall the time) when your Lord said to the angels, `I am, indeed, going to create a human being from dry ringing clay (formed) from black mud, moulded into shape.
- Ali Quli Qarai
When your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed I am going to create a human out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud.