Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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Muhammad Asad | | He creates man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: and lo! this same being shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue! |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | He hath created man from a drop of fluid, yet behold! he is an open opponent. | |
Shakir | | He created man from a small seed and lo! he is an open contender. | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer! | |
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938) | | He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer! | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | He created the human being from seminal fluid. That is when he is a clear adversary. | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | He created man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: yet he shows himself to be openly contentious! | |
| T.B.Irving | | He creates man from a drop of semen, yet he is an open opponent; | |
[Al-Muntakhab] | | He created the Adamite from a constituent part of fluid that is emitted*, yet he -the Adamite- is more ready to argue than to obey. He brings forward reasons against Allah with a strong, capacious and argumentative mind. | |
[Progressive Muslims] | | He created man from a seed, but then he becomes clearly in opposition. | |
Abdel Haleem | | He created man from a drop of fluid, and yet man openly challenges Him. | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | He hath created man from a drop, and Lo! he is a disputer open. | |
Ahmed Ali | | Man He created from a drop of semen; and still he becomes an open contender. | |
Aisha Bewley | | He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open challenger! | |
Ali Ünal | | He has created human from (so slight a beginning as) a mere drop of seminal fluid; and yet, he turns into an open, fierce adversary (selfishly disputing against the truth). | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | He created man from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender! | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | He has created human being from a mere drop of fluid, (a small life germ) then look! what a perspicuous and sound debater he has turned out to be. | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | He created man from a drop (of sperm); and yet, behold, he is an open opponent! | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | He created man of a sperm-drop; yet, (behold) how he is an evident adversary. | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | He created the human being from a drop of fluid but the human being openly disputes His Word. | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | He created man from a drop, and soon he turned into a debating person, expressing himself openly. | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | He created the human being out of male and female gametes. They should be humble before their Creator's Messages instead of being contentious. | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | He has created man from a drop of semen (sperm); And look this same (man) becomes an open challenger (about the creation)! | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | He created man from a sperm-drop; then at once, he is a clear adversary. | |
Farook Malik | | He created man from a drop of semen, yet he is an open contender. | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | He created man from a drop of fluid. Yet, man is now hostile and argumentative! | |
Tahir-ul-Qadri Mohammad | | He alone has created man from a drop of vital fluid, yet he has become openly contentious (instead of becoming totally submissive to Allah). | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | He created the human being from Nutfah, and afterwards he (behaves as) one who indulges in all sorts of arguments and disputes. | |
| Bilal Muhammad (2013 Edition) | | He has created the human being from a zygote, and behold, he becomes an open disputer. | |
Maududi | | He created man out of a mere drop of fluid, and lo! he turned into an open wrangler. | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | He has created mankind from a tiny embryo; how funny of this insignificant creature to turn against his own soul and challenge his Creator. | |
| Faridul Haque | | He created man from a drop of fluid, yet he is an open quarreller! | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | He created mankind from a sperm drop, yet he is a clear adversary. | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | He created man from a small life-germ, and lo! he is an open contender. | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | He created the human/mankind from a drop/male's or female's secretion/little water, so then he (the human/mankind) is (a) clear/evident disputer/adversary . | |
Sher Ali | | HE has created man from a mere drop of fluid, but lo ! he is an open disputer. | |
Rashad Khalifa | | He created the human from a tiny drop, then he turns into an ardent opponent. | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | He created man from a drop of fluid, yet he is an open quarreller! | |
Hilali & Khan | | He has created man from Nutfah (mixed drops of male and female sexual discharge), then behold, this same (man) becomes an open opponent. | |
