Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the second verse of chapter 76 (sūrat l-insān). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (76) sūrat l-insān (Man)

Sahih International: Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.

Pickthall: Lo! We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing.

Yusuf Ali: Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight.

Shakir: Surely We have created man from a small life-germ uniting (itself): We mean to try him, so We have made him hearing, seeing.

Muhammad Sarwar: We created the human being from the union of sperm and egg to test him. We gave him hearing and vision.

Mohsin Khan: Verily, We have created man from Nutfah drops of mixed semen (discharge of man and woman), in order to try him, so We made him hearer, seer.

Arberry: We created man of a sperm-drop, a mingling, and We made him hearing, seeing.

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See Also

• Verse (76:2) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (76:2)