Quran 16 : 4

He created the human kind from a minute quantity of semen then behold, he (is) an opponent clear.
خَلَقَ
Khalaqa
ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ
Aliinsaāna
مِن
Min
نُّطْفَةٍ
Nnuṭfahin
فَإِذَا
Faiidhā
هُوَ
Huwa
خَصِيمٌ
Khaṣīmun
مُّبِينٌ
Mmubīnun

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

He has created man from a seed, but then he becomes clearly in opposition.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer

Wahiduddin Khan

He created man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: yet he shows himself to be openly contentious

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

He created man from a sperm-drop; then at once, he is a clear adversary

The Wise Quran

He created man from a sperm; then behold, he is a clear opponent.

The Study Quran

He created man from a drop, and behold, he is a manifest adversary

Talal Itani (2012)

He created the human being from a drop of fluid, yet he becomes an open adversary

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

He created man from a drop, and behold, he becomes a clear disputant.

T.B.Irving

He creates man from a drop of semen, yet he is an open opponent;

Syed Vickar Ahamed

He has created man from a drop of semen (sperm); And look this same (man) becomes an open challenger (about the creation)

Sher Ali

HE has created man from a mere drop of fluid, but lo ! he is an open disputer

Shakir

He created man from a small seed and lo! he is an open contender

Shabbir Ahmed

He created the human being out of male and female gametes. They should be humble before their Creator's Messages instead of being contentious

Samy Mahdy

He created the human from a sperm-drop, so behold he is an obvious opponent.

Safi Kaskas

He created the human being out of a fertilized ovum, and suddenly he is an open adversary.

Rashad Khalifa

He created the human from a tiny drop, then he turns into an ardent opponent.

N J Dawood 2014

He created man from a little germ: yet is he openly contentious

Mustaqim

He created man from a sperm, then he argues openly.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

He created humans from a sperm-drop, then—behold!—they openly challenge ˹Him˺.

Musharraf Hussain

He created Humans from a drop of semen, so is that why humans are quarrelsome

MunirMezyed2023

He created man from a minute quantity of semen, then behold, he becomes a manifest opponent.

Munir Mezyed

He created man from a minute quantity of semen, then behold, he becomes a manifest opponent.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

He created man from a drop, and soon he turned into a debating person, expressing himself openly

Muhammad Sarwar

He created the human being from a drop of fluid but the human being openly disputes His Word

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

He hath created man from a drop of fluid, yet behold! he is an open opponent

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

He created man of a sperm-drop; yet, (behold) how he is an evident adversary

Muhammad Asad

He creates man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: and lo! this same being shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

He created the human/mankind from a drop/male's or female's secretion/little water, so then he (the human/mankind) is (a) clear/evident disputer/adversary

Mohammad Shafi

He (Allah) created man from tiny fertilized ovum. And, lo, he has become an open adversary

Mir Aneesuddin

He created man from a sperm, even then he is an open disputant .

Maulana Muhammad Ali

He created man from a small life-germ, and lo! he is an open contender

Maududi

He created man out of a mere drop of fluid, and lo! he turned into an open wrangler

Linda "iLham" Barto

He has created humanity from a single cell; look how the same becomes a public disputant.

John Medows Rodwell

Man hath He created from a moist germ; yet lo! man is an open caviller

Irving/Hegab

He creates man from a drop of semen, yet he is an open opponent;

Hilali - Khan

He has created man from Nutfah (mixed drops of male and female sexual discharge), then behold, this same (man) becomes an open opponent

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

He created mankind from a sperm drop, yet he is a clear adversary

Hamid S. Aziz

He created man from a drop (of sperm); and yet, behold, he is an open opponent

George Sale

He hath created man of seed; and yet behold, he is a professed disputer against the resurrection

Fode Drame

He created the human being from a drop of liquid but behold he has become a manifest contender [to his Lord].

Faridul Haque

He created man from a drop of fluid, yet he is an open quarreller

Edward Henry Palmer

He created man from a clot; and yet, behold, he is an open opponent

Dr. Munir Munshey

He created man from a drop of fluid. Yet, man is now hostile and argumentative

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

He alone has created man from a drop of vital fluid, yet he has become openly contentious (instead of becoming totally submissive to Allah)

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He created the human being from seminal fluid. That is when he is a clear adversary.

Dr. Kamal Omar

He created the human being from Nutfah, and afterwards he (behaves as) one who indulges in all sorts of arguments and disputes

Corpus.Quran

He created the human kind from a minute quantity of semen then behold he (is) an opponent clear

Bilal Muhammad 2018

He has created the human being from a zygote, and behold, he becomes an open disputer

Bijan Moeinian

He has created mankind from a tiny embryo; how funny of this insignificant creature to turn against his own soul and challenge his Creator

Bakhtiari Nejad

God created human being from fertilized egg (zygote), now he is an overt challenger!

Arthur John Arberry

He created man of a sperm-drop; and, behold, he is a manifest adversary

Amatul Rahman Omar

He has created human being from a mere drop of fluid, (a small life germ) then look! what a perspicuous and sound debater he has turned out to be

Ali Ünal

He has created human from (so slight a beginning as) a mere drop of seminal fluid; and yet, he turns into an open, fierce adversary (selfishly disputing against the truth)

Ali Quli Qara'i

He created man from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender

Aisha Bewley

He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open challenger!

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

He created man from a purified drop; therefore, he is an open disputer.

Ahmed Hulusi

He created man from a single sperm... And behold, he has become defiant!

Ahmed Ali

Man He created from a drop of semen; and still he becomes an open contender

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

He hath created man from a drop, and Lo! he is a disputer open

Abdul Hye

He has created human from semen, yet the he becomes an open opponent.

Abdel Haleem

He created man from a drop of fluid, and yet man openly challenges Him