Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and thereafter became a germ-cell - whereupon He created and formed [it] in accordance with what [it] was meant to be
Arthur John Arberry
Then he was a blood-clot, and He created and formed
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Then did he become a leech-like clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him) in due proportion
Arabic
ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةࣰ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ٣٨
Transliteration (2021)
thumma kāna ʿalaqatan fakhalaqa fasaww