Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | HAS THERE [not] been an endless span of time before man [appeared - a time] when he was not yet a thing to be thought of |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned | |
Shakir | | There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Was there not a period of time when man was nothing worth mentioning | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Approached the human being a long course of time when he will be nothing remembered? | |
| T.B.Irving | | Has a period in [this) age not come over (every) man when he was nothing worth mentioning? | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Is there not a period of time when each human is nothing yet worth mentioning? | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Has there come upon the human being a span of time when he was nothing to be mentioned? | |
| Abdul Hye | | Has there not come over human, a period of time when it was not a thing worth mentioning? | |
| The Study Quran | | Has there come upon man a span of time in which he was a thing unremembered | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | Was there not a time in the past when the human being was nothing to even be mentione | |
Abdel Haleem | | Was there not a period of time when man was nothing to speak of | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Surely there hath come upon man a space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning | |
Ahmed Ali | | WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing | |
Aisha Bewley | | Has man ever known a point of time when he was not something remembered? | |
Ali Ünal | | Did there pass (– and surely there did pass –) over human a stretch of time when he was a thing not mentioned and remembered (as human) | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | Has there been for man a period of time when he was not anything worthy of mention | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Was there not over man a long period of time when he was a thing unremembered (nothing, not worth mention) | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Has there come upon man a while of (an) era when he was not a thing to be remembered | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | There was certainly a time when there was no mention of the human being | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | There has come upon man a period of time in which he was nothing worth mentioning | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | Has there not passed over man an era when he was not even worth mentioning | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | Has there not been a long period of time, when man was nothing— (Not even) mentioned | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned | |
Farook Malik | | Has there not passed over man a period of time when he was nothing- -not even mentioned | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | Was there (ever) a period of time when man was not worth a mention | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Has there passed over the human being a portion from the passing time when he becomes not an item mentioned (to somebody) | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Has there come upon man a period of time when he was nothing to be mentioned | |
Maududi | | Was there a period of time when man was not even worthy of a mention | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | Did not a period of time come upon the human being that he was nothing to be mentioned | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Has there ever been a period of time when the human being was not something to consider | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | Hasn’t there been a phase in human history when humans were nothing worthy of mention? | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | Was there not a time in the past when man was nothing to even be mentioned? | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | There was — was there not? — a time when man [before he was created] was not yet a thing worth mentioning | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | Does man not recognize a stage of his life in which he was practically nothing worth to mention | |
| Faridul Haque | | Indeed there has been a time for man, when even his name did not exist anywhere | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | Indeed, there came upon the human a period of time when he was an unremembered thing | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Surely there came over man a time when he was nothing that could be mentioned | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Did (it) come on the human/mankind (a) period of time from the long time he was not a mentioned/remembered thing | |
Sher Ali | | There has, certainly, come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning | |
Rashad Khalifa | | Is it not a fact that there was a time when the human being was nothing to be mentioned? | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Undoubtedly, there has come upon man a time when there was no mentioning of his name anywhere. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | There did pass over a human being a while of a long space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Surely, there has passed over man a period of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was nothing to be mentioned | |
