The Quran

سورة قٓ

Surah Qâf 50:15

Allâh is Almighty · Verse 15 of 45

أَفَعَيِينَا بِالْخَلْقِ الْأَوَّلِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ فِي لَبْسٍ مِنْ خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Are We wearied with the first creation (that We will not be able to create them the second time on the Day of Resurrection)? The fact is that they are in confusing doubt about a new creation.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Were We then weary with the first Creation, that they should be in confused doubt about a new Creation?

Ahmed Ali

Were We exhausted by the act of the first creation? And yet they are confused about a new creation.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

What! did We show failure and weariness in the first creation (that We will not be able to repeat creation after its destruction)? Rather, (knowing that it could never be so) they are in a tangle (of thought and argument) about a new creation (after destruction of the old).

Daryabadi

Are We then wearied with the first creation? Aye! they are in dubiety regarding a new creation.

Faridul Haque

So did We tire by creating the first time? Rather they doubt being created again.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Were WE then wearied by the first creation? Nay, but they are in confusion about the new creation.

Muhammad Asad

Could We, then, be [thought of as being] worn out by the first creation? Nay - but some people are [still] lost in doubt about [the possibility of] a new creation!

Muhammad Musin Khan

Were We then tired with the first creation? Nay, They are in confused doubt about a new creation (i.e. Resurrection)?

Muhammad Pickthall

Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.

Muhammad Sarwar

Did We fail to accomplish the first creation? Of course, We did not; We have all power over all things. Yet they are confused about a new creation.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.

Rashad Khalifa

Were we too burdened by the first creation? Is this why they doubt resurrection?

Shabbir Ahmed

Were We then weary with the first creation that they should be lost in doubt about a new creation?

Commentary 50:15 “Are We wearied with the first creation” provides another argument for the continuation of some kind of life after death. The question that was brought…

أَفَعَيِينَا بِالْخَلْقِ الْأَوَّلِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ فِي لَبْسٍ مِّنْ خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ

50:15 “Are We wearied with the first creation” provides another argument for the continuation of some kind of life after death. The question that was brought up in this verse is answered in verse 38 “No weariness touched Us”.