سورة الإنسَان
Surah Al-Insân 76:1
The Human Being · Verse 1 of 31
هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ حِينٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئًا مَذْكُورًا
Abdul Mannan Omar
There did pass over a human being a while of a long space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?
Ahmed Ali
WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing?
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Did there pass (– and surely there did pass –) over human a stretch of time when he was a thing not mentioned and remembered (as human)?
Daryabadi
Surely there hath come upon man a space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.
Faridul Haque
Indeed there has been a time for man, when even his name did not exist anywhere.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Surely there came over man a time when he was nothing that could be mentioned.
Maulvi Sher Ali
There has, certainly, come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.
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?
Muhammad Musin Khan
Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was nothing to be mentioned?
Muhammad Pickthall
Hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered?
Muhammad Sarwar
There was certainly a time when there was no mention of the human being.
Muhammed ali Shakir
There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning.
Rashad Khalifa
Is it not a fact that there was a time when the human being was nothing to be mentioned?
Shabbir Ahmed
Has there not passed over man an era when he was not even worth mentioning?
Commentary 76:1 Al-Insânالْإِنسَانِ is usually translated as the human being, but its root is anisaأنِسَ that means to be polite, familiar, and social, have intimate…
هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى الْإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئًا مَّذْكُورًا
76:1 Al-Insânالْإِنسَانِ is usually translated as the human being, but its root is anisaأنِسَ that means to be polite, familiar, and social, have intimate connection; anasaأنَسَ is to be friendly, polite, with feelings of warmth, to have good manners, to perceive things. Here is a mention of a creation with the above characteristics. The particle hallهَلْ implies the positive meaning of qadقد to denote that an endless span of time passed before human beings appeared.