Al-Hijr 15:28
The Rock · ayah 28 of 99
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّى خَٰلِقٌۢ بَشَرًۭا مِّن صَلْصَٰلٍۢ مِّنْ حَمَإٍۢ مَّسْنُونٍۢ
Wa-ith qala rabbuka lilmala-ikatiinnee khaliqun basharan min salsalin min hama-inmasnoon
"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."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I will create a mortal out of dried clay, formed from dark mud."
Pickthall (classic)+
"And (remember) when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am creating a mortal out of potter's clay of black mud altered,"
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;"