The Quran

سورة السَّجدَة

Surah Al-Sajdah 32:8

The Prostration · Verse 8 of 30

ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُ مِنْ سُلَالَةٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ مَهِينٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Then He created his seed from an extract of an insignificant fluid (derived by his consuming food produced from clay or soil).

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised:

Ahmed Ali

Then made his offspring from the extract of base fluid,

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Ali Unal

Then He made his reproduction dependent upon an extraction of humble fluid.

Daryabadi

Then He made his progeny from an extract of water base.

Faridul Haque

Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Then He made his progeny of an extract, of worthless water.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Then HE made his progeny from an extract of an insignificant fluid;

Muhammad Asad

then He causes him to be begotten out of the essence of a humble fluid;

Muhammad Musin Khan

Then He made his offspring from semen of worthless water (male and female sexual discharge).

Muhammad Pickthall

Then He made his seed from a draught of despised fluid;

Muhammad Sarwar

He made His offspring come into existence from an extract of insignificant fluid,

Muhammed ali Shakir

Then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation.

Rashad Khalifa

Then He continued his reproduction through a certain lowly liquid.

Shabbir Ahmed

Then He made him to be reproduced out of the essence of a mere fluid.