50. Surah Qaf, Verse 15
اَفَعَي۪ينَا بِالْخَلْقِ الْاَوَّلِۜ بَلْ هُمْ ف۪ي لَبْسٍ مِنْ خَلْقٍ جَد۪يدٍ۟
AfaAAayeena bilkhalqial-awwali bal hum fee labsin min khalqin jadeed
Were We exhausted by the first creation? Yet they are dubious about the new creation.
- Progressive Muslims
Did We have any difficulty in making the first creation No, they are in confusion about the next creation.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Could, We, then, be worn out by the first creation? Nay, they are still (after such diverse examples,) lost in doubt about a new creation. (46:33).
- Sam Gerrans
Were We then wearied by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.
- The Monotheist Group
Did We have any difficulty in making the first creation? No, they are in confusion about the next creation.
- Edip-Layth
Did We have any difficulty in making the first creation? No, they are in confusion about the next creation.
- Aisha Bewley
Were We exhausted by the first creation? Yet they are dubious about the new creation.
- Rashad Khalifa
Were we too burdened by the first creation? Is this why they doubt resurrection?
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Were We exhausted by the act of the first creation? And yet they are confused about a new creation.
- Sahih International
Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.
- Muhammad Asad
Could We, then, be [thought of as being] worn out by the first creation? Nay - but some people are [still] lost in doubt about [the possibility of] a new creation!
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Did We grow weary and worn out with fatigue with the first creation that you people suspect the validity of a new creation?
- Bijan Moeinian
The same God that has created the existing universe and ordered, is He not capable of resurrect you? [The astronomers suggest that: if there is enough matter in the universe, once every few tens of billion years the matter in universe is being condensed and a new Big Bang creates a new universe. ]
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Were We then tired with the first creation? Nay, they are in confused doubt about a new creation (i.e. Resurrection).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Were We then weary with the first Creation, that they should be in confused doubt about a new Creation?
- Mustafa Khattab
Were We incapable of creating ˹them˺ the first time? In fact, they are in doubt about ˹their˺ re-creation.
- Taqi Usmani
Is it, then, that We were worn out by the first creation? No, but they are still in confusion about the new creation.
- Abdul Haleem
So were We incapable of the first creation? No indeed! Yet they doubt a second creation.
- Arthur John Arberry
What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation.
- E. Henry Palmer
Were we then fatigued with the first creation? nay! but they are in obscurity concerning the new creation.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Were We then fatigued with (did We need rest after) the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Did We then falter by the first creation? No indeed, (but) they are in confoundedness as to a new creation.
- George Sale
Is our power exhausted by the first creation? Yea; they are in a perplexity, because of a new creation which is foretold them, namely, the raising of the dead.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Were We then tired with the first Creation? Nay! They are in a confused (state of) doubt about a new Creation.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Are We wearied with the first creation (that We will not be able to create them the second time on the Day of Resurrection)? The fact is that they are in confusing doubt about a new creation.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Were We exhausted by the first creation? Rather they are in doubt about a new creation.