سورة المؤمنون، الآية ١٢
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍ مِّن طِينٍ ١٢
walaqad khalaqnā l-insāna min sulālatin min ṭīnin
And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.
Verse 12 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:12), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 342 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Verily, I created the father of mankind, Adam, from clay. I took the soil he was created from, from a mixture of water and the soil of the earth.
We created man4 from an extract of clay,
[4] i.e., Adam (عليه السلام).
And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
Verily We created man from a product of wet earth;
Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay);
And certainly We created man of an extract of clay,
And indeed We already created man of an extraction of clay.
تِلْكَ ٱلْجَنَّةُ ٱلَّتِى نُورِثُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا مَن كَانَ تَقِيًّا
That is Paradise, which We give as inheritance to those of Our servants who were fearing of Allāh.
لَكُمْ فِيهَا فَٰكِهَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ مِّنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ
For you therein is much fruit from which you will eat.
وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنْ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ إِذَآ أَنتُم بَشَرٌ تَنتَشِرُونَ
And of His signs is that He created you from dust; then, suddenly you were human beings dispersing [throughout the earth].
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ مِن طِينٍ …
Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of man from clay. …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.
