Al-Qur'an Surah As-Sajdah Verse 8

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Then He made his progeny from a drop of semen, from despised water.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Then He made his descendants from an extract of a humble fluid,

Ruwwad Translation Center

Then He made his progeny from the extract of a worthless fluid.

A. J. Arberry

then He fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water,

Abdul Haleem

then made his descendants from an extract of underrated fluid.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then He made his progeny from an extract of water base.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised;

Abul Ala Maududi

then made his progeny from the extract of a mean fluid,

Ahmed Ali

Then made his offspring from the extract of base fluid,

Ahmed Raza Khan

Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.

Ali Quli Qarai

Then He made his progeny from an extract of a base fluid.

Ali Ünal

Then He made his reproduction dependent upon an extraction of humble fluid.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Then He created his seed from an extract of an insignificant fluid (derived by his consuming food produced from clay or soil).

English Literal

Then He created/made his off spring/descendants from descendent/strain/gene/progeny from humiliated/degraded water.

Faridul Haque

Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.

Hamid S. Aziz

Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from dust.

Hilali & Khan

Then He made his offspring from semen of worthless water (male and female sexual discharge).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Such is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty, the Merciful,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Then He made his seed from a draught of despised fluid;

Muhammad Sarwar

He made His offspring come into existence from an extract of insignificant fluid,

Qaribullah & Darwish

then He made his offspring from a clot of weak water (semen).

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Then He made his offspring from semen of despised water.

Wahiduddin Khan

then He made his progeny from an extract of a humble fluid.

Talal Itani

Then made his reproduction from an extract of an insignificant fluid.

Tafsir jalalayn

then He made his progeny, his offspring, from an extract, a blood clot, of a base, delicate, fluid, namely, the sperm-drop;

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Then He made his offspring from semen of despised water.

means, they reproduce in this fashion, from a Nutfah which comes from the loins of men and from between the ribs of women