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Surah Al-Insan, Verse 2

سورة الانسان، الآية ٢

76:2 Juz 29 Hizb 58 Page 578 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 76:2

إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًا ۝٢

Transliteration

innā khalaqnā l-insāna min nuṭ'fatin amshājin nabtalīhi fajaʿalnāhu samīʿan baṣīran

Translation

Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture1811 that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.

Notes

[1811] i.e., a combination of the male and female substance, within the womb.

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Verse 2 of Surah Al-Insan (76:2), a Medinan surah, is in juz 29, on page 578 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 2

Al-Mukhtasar

I created man from a drop that was a mixture of the liquid of a man and a woman, to test him with the impositions I placed on him. I made him hearing and seeing to carry out the laws I imposed on him.

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Other translations of verse 2

Indeed, We created man from a drop of mixed fluids2, in order to test him. So We gave him hearing and sight.

Notes

[2] A combination of male and female gametes (sperm and egg) which form the zygote after fertilization in the womb.

Verily, We have created man from Nutfah (drops) of mixed semen (sexual discharge of man and woman), in order to try him: so We made him hearer and seer.

Lo! We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing.

Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight.

Surely We have created man from a small life-germ uniting (itself): We mean to try him, so We have made him hearing, seeing.

Surely We created man from a sperm-drop, a mingling, trying him; so We made him constantly hearing, constantly beholding.

Verse 2 word by word

  1. إِنَّا innā Indeed, We
  2. خَلَقْنَا khalaqnā [We] created خ ل ق
  3. ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ l-insāna man أ ن س
  4. مِن min from
  5. نُّطْفَةٍ nuṭ'fatin a semen-drop ن ط ف
  6. أَمْشَاجٍ amshājin a mixture م ش ج
  7. نَّبْتَلِيهِ nabtalīhi (that) We test him ب ل و
  8. فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ fajaʿalnāhu so We made (for) him ج ع ل
  9. سَمِيعًۢا samīʿan hearing س م ع
  10. بَصِيرًا baṣīran and sight ب ص ر

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Mulk 67:2

    ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَٱلْحَيَوٰةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفُورُ

    [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -

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