Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 33rd verse of chapter 15 (sūrat l-ḥij'r). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract)

Sahih International: He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud."

Pickthall: He said: I am not one to prostrate myself unto a mortal whom Thou hast created out of potter's clay of black mud altered!

Yusuf Ali: (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape."

Shakir: He said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou hast created of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.

Muhammad Sarwar: Iblis replied, "I did not want to prostrate before a human being whom You have created out of mud-moulded clay".

Mohsin Khan: [Iblis (Satan)] said: "I am not the one to prostrate myself to a human being, whom You created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud."

Arberry: Said he, 'I would never bow myself before a mortal whom Thou hast created of a clay of mud moulded.'

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See Also

• Verse (15:33) Morphology - description of each Arabic word