55. Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 14
خَلَقَ الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِۙ
Khalaqa al-insana min salsalinkalfakhkhar
He created man from dry earth like baked clay;
- Progressive Muslims
He created the human from a clay, like pottery.
- Shabbir Ahmed
He created the human out of inorganic matter that sounded like an empty pot. (And it was empty of a trace of the finished form).
- Sam Gerrans
He created man of sounding clay like pottery,
- The Monotheist Group
He created man from a sludge, like pottery.
- Edip-Layth
He created the human from clay, like pottery.
- Aisha Bewley
He created man from dry earth like baked clay;
- Rashad Khalifa
He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
He created man of fermented clay dried tinkling hard like earthen ware,
- Sahih International
He created man from clay like [that of] pottery.
- Muhammad Asad
He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery,
- Marmaduke Pickthall
He created man of clay like the potter's,
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
He created man's material part from clay, the same material of which earthenware vessels are made of.
- Bijan Moeinian
He is the One Who created man from earthly materials and created Jinns (extra-terrestrials)…
- Al-Hilali & Khan
He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
He created man from sounding clay like unto pottery,
- Mustafa Khattab
He created humankind from ˹sounding˺ clay like pottery,
- Taqi Usmani
He has created man from dry clay, ringing like pottery,
- Abdul Haleem
He created mankind out of dried clay, like pottery,
- Arthur John Arberry
He created man of a clay like the potter's,
- E. Henry Palmer
He created men of crackling clay like the potters.
- Hamid S. Aziz
He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels (as containers),
- Mahmoud Ghali
He created man of dry clay like earthenware,
- George Sale
He created man of dried clay like an earthen vessel:
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
He created man from sounding clay like the clay of pottery,
- Amatul Rahman Omar
He created human being from the essence extracted from dry ringing clay like a piece of baked pottery (-with the faculty of speech and possessing pliant and submissive nature).
- Ali Quli Qarai
He created man out of dry clay, like the potter’s,