36. Surah Ya-Sin, Verse 77
اَوَلَمْ يَرَ الْاِنْسَانُ اَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ فَاِذَا هُوَ خَص۪يمٌ مُب۪ينٌ
Awa lam yara al-insanu annakhalaqnahu min nutfatin fa-itha huwa khaseemunmubeen
Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an open antagonist!
- Progressive Muslims
Has man not seen that We have created him from a seed, that he would become a clear enemy
- Shabbir Ahmed
Does not man realize that We created him from male and female gametes? Yet, behold, he stands forth as an open contender of Truth! ('Nutfah' = Gamete, male or female).
- Sam Gerrans
Has man not considered that We created him from a sperm-drop? And then is he an open disputant.
- The Monotheist Group
Has man not seen that We have created him from a seed, but he then becomes a clear opponent?
- Edip-Layth
Has the human being not seen that We have created him from a seed, and yet he would become a clear enemy?
- Aisha Bewley
Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an open antagonist!
- Rashad Khalifa
Does the human being not see that we created him from a tiny drop, then he turns into an ardent enemy?
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Does not man see We created him from a drop of semen? Even then he becomes an open contender,
- Sahih International
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?
- Muhammad Asad
IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue?
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Hath not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet lo! he is an open opponent.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Does man not perceive mentally and by visual tokens that We brought him into being from a seed -the constituent part of emitted fluid!- Yet he sets himself against Allah and displays his thought in his actions.
- Bijan Moeinian
Do these disbelievers not think about their creation. I created them from an insignificant sperm drop and now [that I have showered them with my blessings] they dare to challenge their Lord like an enemy of theirs?
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Does not man see that We have created him from Nutfah (mixed male and female sexual discharge - semen drops). Yet behold he (stands forth) as an open opponent.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Doth not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open adversary!
- Mustafa Khattab
Do people not see that We have created them from a sperm-drop, then—behold!—they openly challenge ˹Us˺?
- Taqi Usmani
Did man not see that We have created him from a drop of semen? Then suddenly he stood as an open adversary (to Us).
- Abdul Haleem
Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet- lo and behold!- he disputes openly,
- Arthur John Arberry
Has not man regarded how that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then lo, he is a manifest adversary.
- E. Henry Palmer
Has not man seen that we have created him from a clot? and lo! he is an open opponent;
- Hamid S. Aziz
Does not man see that We have created him from a small seed? Then lo! He is an open disputant.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And has not man seen that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then, only then, is he evidently a constant adversary.
- George Sale
Doth not man know that We have created him of seed? Yet behold, he is an open disputer against the resurrection;
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Does man not see that it is We Who created him from (a clot in the) sperm-ovary drop? Yet see! He (makes himself) an open enemy!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Has not a human being seen how We have created him out of a (very insignificant) sperm drop? Yet behold! he is an open adversary (to Us).
- Ali Quli Qarai
Does not man see that We created him from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender!?