Al-Qur'an Surah Al-'Alaq Verse 2
Al-'Alaq [96]: 2 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer
خَلَقَ الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍۚ (العلق : ٩٦)
- khalaqa
- خَلَقَ
- He created
- l-insāna
- ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ
- man
- min
- مِنْ
- from
- ʿalaqin
- عَلَقٍ
- a clinging substance
Transliteration:
Khalaqal insaana min 'alaq(QS. al-ʿAlaq̈:2)
English / Sahih Translation:
Created man from a clinging substance. (QS. Al-'Alaq, ayah 2)
Mufti Taqi Usmani
He created man from a clot of blood.
Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
created humans from a clinging clot.[[ ’Alaq, meaning the embryo resembles a leech. ]]
Ruwwad Translation Center
created man from a clinging clot.
A. J. Arberry
created Man of a blood-clot.
Abdul Haleem
He created manfrom a clinging form.
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Hath created man from a clot!
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood;
Abul Ala Maududi
created man from a clot of congealed blood.
Ahmed Ali
Created man from an embryo;
Ahmed Raza Khan
Created man from a clot.
Ali Quli Qarai
created man from a clinging mass.
Ali Ünal
Created human from a clot clinging (to the wall of the womb).
Amatul Rahman Omar
Who (also) created human being from a clot of blood.
English Literal
He created the human/mankind from blood clots/sperm .
Faridul Haque
Created man from a clot.
Hamid S. Aziz
Created man from a clot!
Hilali & Khan
Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).
Maulana Mohammad Ali
Read and thy Lord is most Generous,
Mohammad Habib Shakir
He created man from a clot.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
Createth man from a clot.
Muhammad Sarwar
He created man from a clot of blood.
Qaribullah & Darwish
created the human from a (blood) clot.
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
He has created man from a clot.
Wahiduddin Khan
created man from a clot [of blood].
Talal Itani
Created man from a clot.
Tafsir jalalayn
created man (al-insn; the generic) from a blood-clot (`alaq is the plural of `alaqa, which is a small quantity of congealing blood).
Tafseer Ibn Kathir
Read! In the Name of your Lord Who created.
He has created man from a clot.
The Honor and Nobility of Man is in His Knowledge
These Ayat inform of the beginning of man's creation from a dangling clot, and that out of Allah's generosity He taught man that which he did not know. Thus, Allah exalted him and honored him by giving him knowledge, and it is the dignity that the Father of Humanity, Adam, was distinguished with over the angels. Knowledge sometimes is in the mind, sometimes on the tongue, and sometimes in writing with the fingers. Thus, it may be intellectual, spoken and written. And while the last (written) necessitates the first two (intellectual and spoken), the reverse is not true.
For this reason Allah says,
اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الاَْكْرَمُ