Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
HAS THERE [not] been an endless span of time before man [appeared - a time] when he was not yet a thing to be thought of
Arthur John Arberry
Has there come on man a while of time when he was a thing unremembered
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned
Arabic
هَلۡ أَتَىٰ عَلَى ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنِ حِینࣱ مِّنَ ٱلدَّهۡرِ لَمۡ یَكُن شَیۡءࣰا مَّذۡكُورًا ١
Transliteration (2021)
hal atā ʿalā l-insāni ḥīnun mina l-dahri lam yakun shayan madhkūra