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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 36:77 | |
| < 36:78 36:76 > |
| Transliteration | Awa lam yara al-insanu anna khalaqnahu min nutfatin fa-itha huwa khaseemun mubeenun |
| Literal | Does not the human/mankind see/understand that We created him from a drop/male's or female's secretion , so then he is a clear/evident disputer/adversary/arguer? |
| Yusuf Ali | Doth not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open adversary! |
| Pickthal | Hath not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet lo! he is an open opponent. |
| Arberry | Has not man regarded how that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then lo, he is a manifest adversary. |
| Shakir | Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant. |
| Sarwar | Has the human being not considered that We have created him from a drop of fluid. He is openly quarrelsome. |
| Khalifa | Does the human being not see that we created him from a tiny drop, then he turns into an ardent enemy? |
| Hilali/Khan | Does not man see that We have created him from Nutfah (mixed male and female discharge semen drops). Yet behold! He (stands forth) as an open opponent. |
| H/K/Saheeh | Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop then at once he is a clear adversary? |
| Malik | Does not man see that We have created him from a sperm? Yet he stands up as an open adversary.[77] |
| QXP | Does not man realize that We created him from male and female gametes? Yet, behold, he stands forth as an open contender of Truth! ('Nutfah' = Gamete, male or female). |
| Maulana Ali | Does not man see that We have created him from the small life-germ? Then lo! he is an open disputant. |
| Free Minds | Has man not seen that We have created him from a seed, that he would become a clear enemy? |
| Qaribullah | Has the human not seen how We created him from a drop (of sperm)? Yet he is a clear opponent. |
| George Sale | Doth not man know that We have created him of seed? Yet behold, he is an open disputer against the resurrection; |
| JM Rodwell | Doth not man perceive that we have created him of the moist germs of life? Yet lo! is he an open caviller. |
| Asad | IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue? [See similar passage in 16:4, as well as the corresponding note. Completing the interpretation advanced in his (and Zamakhshari's) commentary on the above-mentioned verse, Razi equates here the term khasim (lit., "contender in argument") with the highest manifestation of what is described as natiq ("articulate [or "rational"] being").] |
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