يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ٱلْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ وَنُقِرُّ فِى ٱلْأَرْحَامِ مَا نَشَآءُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ نُخْرِجُكُمْ طِفْلًا ثُمَّ لِتَبْلُغُوٓا۟ أَشُدَّكُمْ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَيْلَا يَعْلَمَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عِلْمٍ شَيْـًٔا وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَآءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنۢبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍ
Yaaa ayyuhan naasu in kuntum fee raibim minal ba'si fa innaa khalaqnaakum min turaabin summa min nutfatin summaa min 'alaqatin summa mim mud ghatim mukhal laqatinw wa ghairi mukhalla qatil linubaiyina lakum; wa nuqirru fil arhaami maa nashaaa'u ilaaa ajalim musam man summa nukhrijukum tiflan summa litablughooo ashud dakum wa minkum mai yutawaffa wa minkum mai yuraddu ilaaa arzalil 'umuri likailaa ya'lama mim ba'di 'ilmin shai'aa; wa taral arda haamidatan fa izaaa anzalnaa 'alaihal maaa'ah tazzat wa rabat wa ambatat min kulli zawjim baheej
O People, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection, then [consider that] indeed, We created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed - that We may show you. And We settle in the wombs whom We will for a specified term, then We bring you out as a child, and then [We develop you] that you may reach your [time of] maturity. And among you is he who is taken in [early] death, and among you is he who is returned to the most decrepit [old] age so that he knows, after [once having] knowledge, nothing. And you see the earth barren, but when We send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows [something] of every beautiful kind.
لوگو اگر تم کو مرنے کے بعد جی اُٹھنے میں کچھ شک ہو تو ہم نے تم کو (پہلی بار بھی تو) پیدا کیا تھا (یعنی ابتدا میں) مٹی سے پھر اس سے نطفہ بنا کر۔ پھر اس سے خون کا لوتھڑا بنا کر۔ پھر اس سے بوٹی بنا کر جس کی بناوٹ کامل بھی ہوتی ہے اور ناقص بھی تاکہ تم پر (اپنی خالقیت) ظاہر کردیں۔ اور ہم جس کو چاہتے ہیں ایک میعاد مقرر تک پیٹ میں ٹھہرائے رکھتے ہیں پھر تم کو بچہ بنا کر نکالتے ہیں۔ پھر تم جوانی کو پہنچتے ہو۔ اور بعض (قبل از پیری مرجاتے ہیں اور بعض شیخ فالی ہوجاتے اور بڑھاپے کی) نہایت خراب عمر کی طرف لوٹائے جاتے ہیں کہ بہت کچھ جاننے کے بعد بالکل بےعلم ہوجاتے ہیں۔ اور (اے دیکھنے والے) تو دیکھتا ہے (کہ ایک وقت میں) زمین خشک (پڑی ہوتی ہے) پھر جب ہم اس پر مینہ برساتے ہیں تو شاداب ہوجاتی اور ابھرنے لگتی ہے اور طرح طرح کی بارونق چیزیں اُگاتی ہے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Different stages in the development of foetus in mother's womb
فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ (We created you from dust - 22:5.) This verse deals with the different stages through which the foetus passes in its mother's womb before taking a human form. There is a detailed hadith on this subject...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: O mankind in other words O people of Mecca if you are in doubt about the Resurrection then lo! consider that We have created you that is We have created your origin — Adam — from dust then We created his progeny from a drop a sperm-drop then from a clot congealed blood then from a little lump of fle...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Evidence of the Resurrection in the creation of Man and of Plants
When Allah speaks of disbelief in the Resurrection, He also mentions the evidence of His power and ability to resurrect that is evident from the way He initiates creation. Allah says:
يَأَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ا...
ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَٰهُ نُطْفَةً فِى قَرَارٍ مَّكِينٍ
Summa ja'alnaahu nutfatan fee qaraarim makeen
Then We placed him as a sperm-drop in a firm lodging.
پھر اس کو ایک مضبوط (اور محفوظ) جگہ میں نطفہ بنا کر رکھا
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: In the next verse : ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاهُ نُطْفَةً (then We made him a sperm-drop) this same point has been mentioned differently. The meaning of all this is that the first life i.e. Sayyidna 'Adam علیہ السلامٍ was created from earth and continued further with the sperm which is a refined element of the...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Then We made him namely man the progeny of Adam a drop a sperm-drop in a secure lodging which is the womb.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Sign of Allah in the progressive creation of Man from Clay then from Nutfah and thereafter
Allah tells us how He initially created man from an extract of Tin. This was Adam, peace be upon him, whom Allah created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. Ibn Jarir said, "Adam was called Tin...
ثُمَّ خَلَقْنَا ٱلنُّطْفَةَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقْنَا ٱلْعَلَقَةَ مُضْغَةً فَخَلَقْنَا ٱلْمُضْغَةَ عِظَٰمًا فَكَسَوْنَا ٱلْعِظَٰمَ لَحْمًا ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَٰهُ خَلْقًا ءَاخَرَ فَتَبَارَكَ ٱللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ ٱلْخَٰلِقِينَ
Summa khalaqnan nutfata 'alaqatan fakhalaqnal 'alaqata mudghatan fakhalaq nal mudghata 'izaaman fakasawnal 'izaama lahman summa anshaanaahu khalqan aakhar; fatabaarakal laahu ahsanul khaaliqeen
Then We made the sperm-drop into a clinging clot, and We made the clot into a lump [of flesh], and We made [from] the lump, bones, and We covered the bones with flesh; then We developed him into another creation. So blessed is Allah, the best of creators.
پھر نطفے کا لوتھڑا بنایا۔ پھر لوتھڑے کی بوٹی بنائی پھر بوٹی کی ہڈیاں بنائیں پھر ہڈیوں پر گوشت (پوست) چڑھایا۔ پھر اس کو نئی صورت میں بنا دیا۔ تو خدا جو سب سے بہتر بنانے والا بڑا بابرکت ہے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: (an extract of clay) which changes into the seed ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاهُ نُطْفَةً (then We made him a sperm-drop). Now it is well known that the production of food from the earth, its absorption in the human body of that special element which changes into the seed is a long drawn out process. Similarly th...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Then We transformed the drop of semen into a clot congealed blood. Then We transformed the clot into a little lump of flesh mudgha a piece of flesh about the size of what one would be able to chew mā yumdagh. Then We transformed the lump of flesh into bones. Then We clothed the bones with flesh a va...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Sign of Allah in the progressive creation of Man from Clay then from Nutfah and thereafter
Allah tells us how He initially created man from an extract of Tin. This was Adam, peace be upon him, whom Allah created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. Ibn Jarir said, "Adam was called Tin...
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍ مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ
Thumma ja'ala naslahoo min sulaalatim mim maaa'immaheen
Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained.
پھر اس کی نسل خلاصے سے (یعنی) حقیر پانی سے پیدا کی
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Everything is good in this world. Evil comes through its wrong use.
In verse 7, it was said: الَّذِي أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ "Who made well whatever He created good”. The reason is that Allah Ta’ ala has made whatever He has created in this world under the dictate of His wisdom, and under the...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: then He made his progeny his offspring from an extract a blood clot of a base delicate fluid namely the sperm-drop;
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Creation of Man in Stages
Allah tells us that He has created everything well and formed everything in a goodly fashion. Malik said, narrating from Zayd bin Aslam:
الَّذِى أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُ
(Who made everything He has created good) means, "He created everything well and in a goodly f...
وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا وَمَا تَحْمِلُ مِنْ أُنثَىٰ وَلَا تَضَعُ إِلَّا بِعِلْمِهِۦ وَمَا يُعَمَّرُ مِن مُّعَمَّرٍ وَلَا يُنقَصُ مِنْ عُمُرِهِۦٓ إِلَّا فِى كِتَٰبٍ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ
Wallaahu khalaqakum min turaabin summa min nutfatin summa ja'alakum azwaajaa; wa maa tahmilu min unsaa wa laa tada'u illaa bi'ilmih; wa maa yu'ammaru mim mu'ammarinw wa laa yunqasu min 'umuriheee illaa fee kitaab; inna zaalika 'alal laahi yaseer
And Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop; then He made you mates. And no female conceives nor does she give birth except with His knowledge. And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan lessened but that it is in a register. Indeed, that for Allah is easy.
اور خدا ہی نے تم کو مٹی سے پیدا کیا پھر نطفے سے پھر تم کو جوڑا جوڑا بنا دیا۔ اور کوئی عورت نہ حاملہ ہوتی ہے اور نہ جنتی ہے مگر اس کے علم سے۔ اور نہ کسی بڑی عمر والے کو عمر زیادہ دی جاتی ہے اور نہ اس کی عمر کم کی جاتی ہے مگر (سب کچھ) کتاب میں (لکھا ہوا) ہے۔ بےشک یہ خدا کو آسان ہے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: The sense of the verse: وَمَا يُعَمَّرُ مِن مُّعَمَّرٍ وَلَا يُنقَصُ مِنْ عُمُرِهِ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ (And no aged person is made to advance in age, nor a part is curtailed from his age, but all this is (recorded) in a book - 35:11), according to the majority of the commentators is that if Allah ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: And God created you from dust by having created your father Adam from it then from a drop of seminal fluid in other words from sperm by creating his seed from it; then He made you pairs males and females. And no female bears or brings forth except with His knowledge illā bi-‘ilmihi is a circumstanti...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Evidence of Life after Death
Often Allah refers to the Resurrection by using the analogy of the earth coming back to life after it has died, as in the beginning of Surat Al-Hajj, where He urges His servants to draw the lesson of the former from the latter. For the earth is dead and lifeless, with no...
أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ
Awalam yaral insaanu annaa khalaqnaahu min nutfatin fa-izaa huwa khaseemum mubeen
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?
کیا انسان نے نہیں دیکھا کہ ہم نے اس کو نطفے سے پیدا کیا۔ پھر وہ تڑاق پڑاق جھگڑنے لگا
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Commentary
The last five verses of Surah Ya Sin were revealed in the background of a particular event. This event has been attributed to Ubayy Ibn Khalaf in some narrations, and to 'As ibn Wa'il in some others. And there is no improbability in that such an event came to pass with both of them. The f...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Or has man — namely the like of al-‘Āsī b. Wā’il — not seen has he not realised that We created him from a drop of sperm and so on in stages until We made him powerful and strong. Then lo! he is an open adversary severely antagonistic towards Us openly making this manifest by his denial of resurrect...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Denial of Life after Death, and the Refutation of this Idea
Mujahid, `Ikrimah, `Urwah bin Az-Zubayr, As-Suddi and Qatadah said, "Ubayy bin Khalaf, may Allah curse him, came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a dry bone in his hand, which he was crumbling and scattering in the air, saying, `O Muham...
مِن نُّطْفَةٍ إِذَا تُمْنَىٰ
Min nutfatin izaa tumnaa
From a sperm-drop when it is emitted
(یعنی) نطفے سے جو (رحم میں) ڈالا جاتا ہے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: وَأَنَّهُ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ (and that He is the One who makes [ one ] laugh and makes [ him ] weep,...53:43) Mankind experiences happiness and grief, and consequently laughing and weeping. Man assigns this to the secondary causes [ which refer to every existent thing in this universe, and tha...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: from a drop of semen once it is emitted once it is poured forth into the womb
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Some Attributes of the Lord, that He returns Man as He originated Him, and some of what He does with His Servants
Allah the Exalted said,
وَأَنَّ إِلَى رَبِّكَ الْمُنتَهَى
(And that to your Lord is the End.) meaning, the return of everything on the Day of Resurrection. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that `A...
إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًا
Innaa khalaqnal insaana min nutfatin amshaajin nabta leehi faja'alnaahu samee'am baseeraa
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
ہم نے انسان کو نطفہٴ مخلوط سے پیدا کیا تاکہ اسے آزمائیں تو ہم نے اس کو سنتا دیکھتا بنایا
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Neither we were there, nor was there any demand from us. It is only Your mercy that listened to what we never said.
Verse [ 2] describes the inception of human creation thus:
اِنَّا خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ نُّطْفَةٍ اَمْشَاجٍ (We have created man from a mixed sperm-drop __76:2). The word amshaj ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Verily We created man the species from a drop of mixed fluid from a mixture that is from the seminal fluid of the man and the ovarian fluid of the woman that have mixed and blended so that We may test him trying him with the moral obligations of religion nabtalīhi is either a new sentence ‘We will t...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
The Recitation of Surat As-Sajdah and Al-Insan in the Morning Prayer on Friday
It has been mentioned previously that it is recorded in Sahih Muslim from Ibn `Abbas that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite in the Morning prayer on Friday:
الم تَنزِيلَ
(Alif Lam Mim. T...
أَلَمْ نَخْلُقكُّم مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ
Alam nakhlukkum mimmaaa'im maheen
Did We not create you from a liquid disdained?
کیا ہم نے تم کو حقیر پانی سے نہیں پیدا کیا؟
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ الْآخِرِينَ (Then We will cause the later ones to follow them....77:17) According to popular reading, Verse 17 purports to say that the present-day infidels, the people of Makkah, will receive punishment soon. They were punished and destroyed by Muslims in the Battle of Badr and ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Did We not create you from a base fluid one that is delicate — and this is semen
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Call to contemplate the various Manifestations of Allah's Power
Allah says,
أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ الاٌّوَّلِينَ
(Did We not destroy the ancients) meaning, those who rejected the Messengers and opposed what they came to them with.
ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ الاٌّخِرِينَ
(So shall We make later generations to f...
مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ
Min nutfah; khalaqahu faqad-darah.
From a sperm-drop He created him and destined for him;
نطفے سے بنایا پھر اس کا اندازہ مقرر کیا
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: خَلَقَهُ فَقَدَّرَهُ (He created him, and designed him in due proportion..80:19). In other words, He has made him with a special design and with great wisdom. His stature, body-structure, his face, his length and breadth of the limbs, his joints, his eyes, nose and ears are all well-proportioned in...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: From a drop of sperm did He create him then proportion him in stages as a blood-clot then an embryo up to the last stage of his creation.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): The Refutation against Whoever denies Life after Death
Allah rebukes those who deny the Resurrection and the Final Gathering.
قُتِلَ الإِنسَـنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُ
(Qutila mankind!) Ad-Dahhak reported from Ibn `Abbas that he said,
قُتِلَ الإِنسَـنُ
(Qutila mankind!) "May man be cursed." Abu Malik also ma...
خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٍ دَافِقٍ
Khuliqa mim maaa'in daafiq
He was created from a fluid, ejected,
وہ اچھلتے ہوئے پانی سے پیدا ہوا ہے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: خُلِقَ مِن مَّاءٍ دَافِقٍ ﴿6﴾ يَخْرُجُ مِن بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ (He is created of a spouting water
that comes out from between the loins and the chest-bones...86:6, 7). The general body of commentators have explained that the spouting water (sperm) comes out from the loins of men and the ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: the response is He was created from a gushing fluid gushing forth from the man and the woman into the womb
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
The Virtues of Surat At-Tariq
An-Nasa'i recorded that Jabir said, "Mu`adh lead the Maghrib prayer and he recited Al-Baqarah and An-Nisa'. So the Prophet said,
«أَفَتَّانٌ أَنْتَ يَا مُعَاذُ، مَا كَانَ يَكْفِيكَ أَنْ تَقْرَأَ بِالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاه...