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Al-Qur'an Surah Ar-Rahman Verse 14

Ar-Rahman [55]: 14 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

خَلَقَ الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ (الرحمن : ٥٥)

khalaqa
خَلَقَ
He created
l-insāna
ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ
the man
min
مِن
from
ṣalṣālin
صَلْصَٰلٍ
clay
kal-fakhāri
كَٱلْفَخَّارِ
like the pottery

Transliteration:

Khalaqal insaana min salsaalin kalfakhkhaari (QS. ar-Raḥmān:14)

English / Sahih Translation:

He created man from clay like [that of] pottery. (QS. Ar-Rahman, ayah 14)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

He has created man from dry clay, ringing like pottery,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

He created humankind from ˹sounding˺ clay like pottery,

Ruwwad Translation Center

He created man from dry clay like pottery,

A. J. Arberry

He created man of a clay like the potter's,

Abdul Haleem

He created mankind out of dried clay, like pottery,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

He created man of clay like, Unto pottery.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

He created man from sounding clay like unto pottery,

Abul Ala Maududi

He has created man from dry, rotten clay like the potter's,

Ahmed Ali

He created man of fermented clay dried tinkling hard like earthen ware,

Ahmed Raza Khan

He created man from clay like that of earthenware.

Ali Quli Qarai

He created man out of dry clay, like the potter’s,

Ali Ünal

He has created human from sounding clay like the potter’s;

Amatul Rahman Omar

He created human being from the essence extracted from dry ringing clay like a piece of baked pottery (-with the faculty of speech and possessing pliant and submissive nature).

English Literal

He created the human/mankind from dry mud/clay as the pottery/earthenware.

Faridul Haque

He created man from clay like that of earthenware.

Hamid S. Aziz

He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels (as containers),

Hilali & Khan

He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the grain with (its) husk and fragrance.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

He created man of clay like the potter's,

Muhammad Sarwar

He created the human being from clay like that used for pottery

Qaribullah & Darwish

He created the human from clay, like earthenware

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

He created man from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

Wahiduddin Khan

He has created man, from dry ringing clay, like the potter"s,

Talal Itani

He created man from hard clay, like bricks.

Tafsir jalalayn

He created man, Adam, of dry clay (salsl, a dry hollow mud producing an echo if tapped), resembling the potter's (fakhkhr, clay that has been baked),

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Creation of Humans and Jinns

Allah mentions that;

خَلَقَ الاِْنسَانَ مِن صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ



وَخَلَقَ الْجَانَّ مِن مَّارِجٍ مِّن نَّارٍ