32. Surah As-Sajdah, Verse 8
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُ مِنْ سُلَالَةٍ مِنْ مَٓاءٍ مَه۪ينٍۚ
Thumma jaAAala naslahu min sulalatinmin ma-in maheen
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
Then He made his progeny of an extraction of despised water;
- The Monotheist Group
Then He made his offspring from a structure derived from a lowly liquid.
- Edip-Layth
Then He made his offspring from a structure derived from an insignificant liquid.
- Aisha Bewley
then produced his seed from an extract of base fluid;
- Rashad Khalifa
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
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;
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
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
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.