Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Was he not once a [mere] drop of sperm that had been spilt
M. M. Pickthall
Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Were they not ˹once˺ a sperm-drop emitted?
Safi Kaskas
Was he not the sperm of ejaculated semen that fertilized the ovum?
Wahiduddin Khan
Was he not once a drop of ejaculated semen
Shakir
Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Was he not a sperm-drop to be emitted in seminal fluid?
T.B.Irving
Was he not once a drop of ejected semen?
Abdul Hye
Was the human not a drop of emitted semen?
The Study Quran
Was he not a drop of semen emitted
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Wasn’t he a drop of ejaculated semen?
Talal Itani (2012)
Was he not a drop of ejaculated semen
Dr. Kamal Omar
Was he not a Nutfah contained in the semen poured forth
Was he not once a drop of emitted semen
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Was he not a spermdrop ejaculated
Muhammad Sarwar
Does the human being think that he will be left uncontrolled
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Was he not an ejaculated drop of semen
Shabbir Ahmed
Was he not gametes that moved to join
Dr. Munir Munshey
Was he not (just) an ejected drop of semen
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (without any form)
Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Was he not a seed from sperm put fort
Abdel Haleem
Was he not just a drop of spilt-out sperm
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Was he not a sperm of emission emitted
Ahmed Ali
Was he not an emitted drop of semen
Aisha Bewley
Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm,
Ali Ünal
Was he not once a mere drop of semen poured forth
Ali Quli Qara'i
Was he not a drop of emitted semen
Hamid S. Aziz
Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Was he not a fertilized egg (zygote) from ejaculated semen,
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Were they not a zygote from sperm emitted
Musharraf Hussain
Weren’t they a drop of emitted semen?
Maududi
Was he not a drop of ejaculated semen
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Was he not a seed from sperm put forth?
Mohammad Shafi
Was he not a tiny ovum fertilised by sperm emitted
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Was he not a sperm of emission emitted?
Was he not a drop of ejected semen?
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
What, was he not an ejaculated drop (of sperm)
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Was he not a small life-germ in sperm emitted
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
Did he not be a drop/male's or female's secretion from sperm/semen , semen being ejaculated/ discharged
Bijan Moeinian
Does man not remember what an insignificant seed in a drop of semen he was
Faridul Haque
Was he not just a drop of the semen that is discharged
Sher Ali
Was he not a drop of fluid, emitted forth
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Was he not (in his beginning) a sperm drop ejaculated (into the woman’s womb)
Amatul Rahman Omar
Was he not a small drop of semen ejected (into a proper place)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Was he not a Nutfah (mixed male and female discharge of semen) poured forth
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
Was he not a tiny drop from semen as it flew out?
Munir Mezyed
Was he not once a drop of fluid which gushed forth?
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Was he not a sperm in an ejaculated fluid?
Linda “iLHam” Barto
Was he/she not a single cell of sperm emitted?
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
Was he not a drop of emitted semen?
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Was he not once a drop of ejected semen?
Samy Mahdy
Was not he a semen-drop from ejaculated semen?
Ahmed Hulusi
Was he not once a drop of sperm?
Mir Aneesuddin
Was he not a sperm in the seminal fluid which is emitted?
Was he not a Notfa (sperm) in a seminal fluid that is emitted
The Wise Quran
Was he not a sperm from emitted semen?