Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And lo! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: "Behold, I am about to create mortal man out of sounding clay, out of dark slime transmuted
Arthur John Arberry
And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape
Arabic
وَإِذۡ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلۡمَلَـٰۤىِٕكَةِ إِنِّی خَـٰلِقُۢ بَشَرࣰا مِّن صَلۡصَـٰلࣲ مِّنۡ حَمَإࣲ مَّسۡنُونࣲ ٢٨
Transliteration (2021)
wa-idh qāla rabbuka lil'malāikati innī khāliqun basharan min ṣalṣālin min ḥama-in masnūni