سورة المرسلات، الآية ٢٠
أَلَمْ نَخْلُقكُّم مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ ٢٠
alam nakhluqkkum min māin mahīnin
Did We not create you from a liquid disdained?
Verse 20 of Surah Al-Mursalat (77:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 581 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.
O people! Did I not create you from a small amount of despised fluid, i.e. a drop of semen?
Did We not create you from a worthless fluid,
Did We not create you from a despised water (semen)?
Did We not create you from a base fluid
Have We not created you from a fluid (held) despicable?-
Did We not create you from contemptible water?
Did We not create you of a contemptible water,
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍ مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ
Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained.
