Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
He creates man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: and lo! this same being shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue
Arthur John Arberry
He created man of a sperm-drop; and, behold, he is a manifest adversary
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer
Arabic
خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنَ مِن نُّطۡفَةࣲ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِیمࣱ مُّبِینࣱ ٤
Transliteration (2021)
khalaqa l-insāna min nuṭ'fatin fa-idhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīnu