سورة يس، الآية ٧٧
أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ ٧٧
awalam yara l-insānu annā khalaqnāhu min nuṭ'fatin fa-idhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīnun
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once1283 he is a clear adversary?
[1283] i.e., as soon as he becomes self-sufficient.
Verse 77 of Surah Ya-Sin (36:77), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 445 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 71 reciters.
77 recitations by 71 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Does the human who rejects the resurrection after death not ponder that I created him from semen, then he went through different phases until he was born and developed, turning into an argumentative and quarrelling creation? Does he not ponder over that to conclude that resurrection is possible?
Does man not see that We have created him from a sperm-drop, then22 he becomes a clear adversary,
[22] i.e., as soon as he becomes a self-sufficient being.
Does not man see that We have created him from Nutfah (mixed male and female sexual discharge - semen drops). Yet behold he (stands forth) as an open opponent.
Hath not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet lo! he is an open opponent.
Doth not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open adversary!
Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
And has not man seen that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then, only then, is he evidently a constant adversary.
One hadith cites this verse; its text is in Arabic.
أَلَمْ نَخْلُقكُّم مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ …
Did We not create you from a liquid disdained? …
إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًا
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ
He created man from a sperm-drop; then at once he is a clear adversary.
أَوَلَا يَذْكُرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْـًٔا
Does man not remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?
