سورة الحجر، الآية ٢٦
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ ٢٦
walaqad khalaqnā l-insāna min ṣalṣālin min ḥama-in masnūnin
And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.
Verse 26 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:26), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 263 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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I created Adam from dried clay, if it is struck it sounds. This clay that he was created from is black and of an altered scent beacuse of the duration it has been left.
We have created man from sounding clay, made of aging mud10.
[10] Salsāl: clay left to ferment and turn hard so that it clinks when tapped on. Hama’: transformed or blackened clay. Masnūn: the smell of which has turned foul or left for some time.
And indeed, We created man from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud.
Verily We created man of potter's clay of black mud altered,
We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;
And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape.
And indeed We already created man of dry clay of mud modeled.
خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ كَٱلْفَخَّارِ …
He created man from clay like [that of] pottery. …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّى خَٰلِقٌۢ بَشَرًا مِّن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
And [mention, O Muḥammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.
قَالَ لَمْ أَكُن لِّأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُۥ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud."
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍ مِّن طِينٍ
And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.
