[Iblis] replied: "It is not for me to prostrate myself before mortal man whom Thou hast created out of sounding clay, out of dark slime transmuted!"
[Iblis] replied: "It is not for me to prostrate myself before mortal man whom Thou hast created out of sounding clay, out of dark slime transmuted!"
He said, "I am not to prostrate before a human being, whom You created from aged mud, like the potter's clay."
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
He said 'It is not befitting me that I should prostrate myself before a human being whom You have made from the ringing clay which was of the black smelling mud.'
(Iblis) replied: ‘I cannot be the one who should fall down prostrate before a human being You have created from old (and) black stinking, sounding mud.
(Iblis) said, “I have not come into existence to prostrate to a human you created from dry clay and an evolving transforming cellular structure.”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
('Iblis) said: 'I am not such that I prostrate myself unto a man whom You have created of raw clay, of black mud moulded'.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
"It is not I", Iblis said, "who would cast himself down in reverence to a human whom You created from dried clay, a product of dark modeling clay that has been polished."