Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | [Or do they deny the existence of God?] Have they themselves been created without anything [that might have caused their creation]? or were they, perchance, their own creators |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators | |
Shakir | | Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they ones who are creators of themselves? | |
| T.B.Irving | | Or were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators? | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Or were they created by nothing, or are they ˹their own˺ creators? | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators? | |
| Abdul Hye | | Or were they created by no one? Or were they (themselves) the creators? | |
| The Study Quran | | Were they created from naught? Or are they the creators | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | Or were they created from nothing Or was it them who create | |
Abdel Haleem | | Were they created without any agent? Were they the creators | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Have they not been created by aught, or are they the creators | |
Ahmed Ali | | Or were they created of themselves? Or are they the creators | |
Aisha Bewley | | Or were they created out of nothing, or are they the creators? | |
Ali Ünal | | Or were they created without anything being before them (or out of something different than the basic material of all creation, so that they know things others do not), or are they the creators (of themselves, so that they can maintain themselves and are free in their acts) | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Or were they created out of nothing, or are they themselves the creators | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Or even were they created out of nothing? Or even are they the creators | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | Have they been created from nothing or are they themselves their own creators | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | Is it that they are created by none, or are they themselves the creators | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | Are they a product of spontaneous generation? Or were they their own creators | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | Or were they created out of nothing? Or were they themselves the creators | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves] | |
Farook Malik | | Were they created without a Creator? Or were they their own creators | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | Did they come into being out of nothing, and without the Creator? Or were they (their own) creators | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Have they been created out of nothing, or they themselves (are) the creators | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators | |
Maududi | | Did they come into being without any creator? Or were they their own creators | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | Or were they created from nothing, or are they the creators | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Were they created of nothing, or did they create themselves | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | Were they created without a creator? Or are they themselves creators? | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | Or were they created from nothing? Or was it them who have created? | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Are they created out of nothing? Or, are they themselves the creators | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | Do they think that they are created out of nothing? Are they their own creators | |
| Faridul Haque | | Have they not been created from some source, or are they themselves the creators | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | Or, were they created out of nothing? Or, were they their own creators | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Or were they created without a (creative) agency? Or are they the creators | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Or they were created from without a thing, or they are the creators | |
Sher Ali | | Have they been created without a purpose, or are they themselves the creators | |
Rashad Khalifa | | Were they created from nothing? Are they the creators? | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Have they not been created by any lineage or they are themselves creators? | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | Have they been created without a (creative) agency (or purpose)? Or are they their own creators | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Have they been created by nothing, or are they themselves the creators | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators | |
