76. Surah Al-Insan, Verse 2
اِنَّا خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ اَمْشَاجٍۗ نَبْتَل۪يهِ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ سَم۪يعاً بَص۪يراً
Inna khalaqna al-insanamin nutfatin amshajin nabtaleehi fajaAAalnahusameeAAan baseera
We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing and seeing.
- Progressive Muslims
We have created the human from a seed that is mixed, We test him, so We made him hear and see.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Behold, it is We who have created the human being from marked out cells, male and female gametes, that joined. Then We passed him through subtle changes. And then We made him a being endowed with Hearing and Sight.
- Sam Gerrans
We created man from a sperm-drop — a mingling — that We might test him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
- The Monotheist Group
We have created man from a mixed seed; We test him, so We made him hear and see.
- Edip-Layth
We have created the human from a seed that is composite, We test him, so We made him hear and see.
- Aisha Bewley
We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing and seeing.
- Rashad Khalifa
We created the human from a liquid mixture, from two parents, in order to test him. Thus, we made him a hearer and a seer.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Verily We created man from a sperm yoked (to the ovum) to bring out his real substance, then gave him hearing and sight.
- Sahih International
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
- Muhammad Asad
Verily, it is We who have created man out of a drop of sperm intermingled, so that We might try him [in his later life]: and therefore We made him a being endowed with hearing and sight.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Lo! We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
We created man from the product of the union of two Notfas "sex cells" Notfa Amshag "Zygot" with the surest standard by which to test his tendency, and We endowed him with the gifts of hearing and vision, faculties divine
- Bijan Moeinian
Your Creator created you from a tiny embryo and then gave you the faculties of sight and hearing in order for you to go through the school of life.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Verily, We have created man from Nutfah (drops) of mixed semen (sexual discharge of man and woman), in order to try him: so We made him hearer and seer.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight.
- Mustafa Khattab
˹For˺ indeed, We ˹alone˺ created humans from a drop of mixed fluids,[1] ˹in order˺ to test them, so We made them hear and see.
- Taqi Usmani
We have created man from a mixed sperm-drop to put him to a test; then We made him able to hear, able to see.
- Abdul Haleem
We created man from a drop of mingled fluid to put him to the test; We gave him hearing and sight;
- Arthur John Arberry
We created man of a sperm-drop, a mingling, and We made him hearing, seeing.
- E. Henry Palmer
Verily, We created man from a mingled clot, to try him; and we gave him hearing and sight.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Surely We have created man from a small mingled life-germ; in order to try him, We made him hearing and seeing.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Surely We created man from a sperm-drop, a mingling, trying him; so We made him constantly hearing, constantly beholding.
- George Sale
Verily we have created man of the mingled seed of both sexes, that We might prove him: And We have made him to hear and to see.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Surely We have created man from a drop of mixed sperm and ovary fluids, in order to try him, so, We gave him (the gifts) of hearing and of sight.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
We have surely created a human being from a sperm drop uniting (it) with (an ovum); We wanted to bestow Our favour on him. That is why We made him hearing and seeing (- enjoying discretion and volition, and so responsible for his actions).
- Ali Quli Qarai
Indeed We created man from the drop of a mixed fluid so that We may test him. So We made him endowed with hearing and sight.