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Ayah al-`Alaq (The Clot, Read) 96:2
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Muhammad Asad
created man out of a germ-cel
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
created humans from a clinging clot.
Safi Kaskas
created the human being from a clinging substance.
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Arabic
خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَق
Transliteration (2021)
khalaqa l-insāna min ʿalaqi
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Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
He created man from a clinging substance.
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
created man out of a germ-cel
M. M. Pickthall
Createth man from a clot
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
created humans from a clinging clot.
Safi Kaskas
created the human being from a clinging substance.
Wahiduddin Khan
created man from a clot [of blood]
Shakir
He created man from a clot
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
He created the human being from a clot.
T.B.Irving
creates man from a clot!
Abdul Hye
created human from a clot (thick blood).
The Study Quran
created man from a blood clot
Dr. Kamal Omar
He created the human being out of a living matter attached (like a leech) hanging (from the internal surface of the womb)
Farook Malik
- created man from clots of blood.
Talal A. Itani (new translation)
Created man from a clot
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Created man from clots
Muhammad Sarwar
He created man from a clot of blood
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
He created man from a clot of blood
Shabbir Ahmed
Created man from a zygote
Dr. Munir Munshey
He creates man from a clot (of blood)
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of thickened blood
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
Created man from a clinging substance
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
He created man from a clot
Abdel Haleem
He created manfrom a clinging form
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Hath created man from a clot
Ahmed Ali
Created man from an embryo
Aisha Bewley
created man from clots of blood.
Ali Ünal
Created human from a clot clinging (to the wall of the womb)
Ali Quli Qara'i
created man from a clinging mass
Hamid S. Aziz
Created man from a clot
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
created the human being from a (dangling, clinging, and leach like) blood clot
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Created the human being from a zygote
Musharraf Hussain
created humans from clustered germ-cells
Maududi
created man from a clot of congealed blood
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
He created man from an embryo.
Mohammad Shafi
Creates man from a clinging substance
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
He made man from the clot of blood,
Rashad Khalifa
He created man from an embryo
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
created the human from a (blood) clot
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Creates man from a clot
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
He created the human/mankind from blood clots/sperm
Bijan Moeinian
God is the One Who created you from a small piece of thick blood (tiny embryo)
Faridul Haque
Created man from a clot
Sher Ali
Created man from a clot of blood
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
He created man from a hanging mass (clinging) like a leech (to the mother’s womb)
Amatul Rahman Omar
Who (also) created human being from a clot of blood
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood)
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
created Man of a blood-clot
George Sale
who hath created man of congealed blood
Edward Henry Palmer
Who created man from congealed blood
John Medows Rodwell
Created man from CLOTS OF BLOOD:
N J Dawood (2014)
created Man from clots of blood
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto
[He] created the human from a clot of congealed blood.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
creates man from a clot!
Sayyid Qutb
created man out of a germ- cell.
Ahmed Hulusi
Created man from alaq (a clot of blood; genetic composition).
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
"created man from a (tiny) clot, clinging (to its mother),"
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
He created man from a clinging organism – See introductio
Mir Aneesuddin
He created man from something that clings and hangs (like a leech) .
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood
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He created man from a clinging substance