Surah 37. As-Saffat, Ayah 11
| فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمْ مَنْ خَلَقْنَا ۚ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُمْ مِنْ طِينٍ لَازِبٍ |
| Asad | : | AND NOW ask those [who deny the truth] to enlight-en thee: Were they more difficult to create than all those [untold marvels] that We have created?-for, behold, them have We created out of [mere] clay commingled with water!7 |
| Malik | : | Ask them: "What is more difficult - their creation or the rest of Our creation? - Them We have created out of a sticky clay. |
| Pickthall | : | Then ask them (O Muhammad): Are they stronger as a creation, or those (others) whom We have created? Lo! We created them of plastic clay. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Just ask their opinion: are they the more difficult to create or the (other) beings We have created? Them have We created out of a sticky clay! 4040 4041 |
| Transliteration | : | fa- istafti -him 'a- -hum ashadd khalq(an) 'am man khalaqnaa 'in(na) -naa khalaqnaa -hum min t.en laazib |
Note - 7I.e., out of primitive substances existing in their
elementary forms in and on the earth (see surah {23},
note [4]) - substances which are as nothing when compared
with the complexity of "the heavens and the earth and all
that is between them": hence, man's individual
resurrection is as nothing when compared with the
creation of the multiform universe.
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Note - 4040"Their": "they" are the doubters, the evil ones, the
deniers of Allah's grace and mercy, who laugh at
Revelation and disbelieve in a Hereafter. Are they more
important or more difficult to create than the wonderful
variety of beings in Allah's spacious Creation? Do they
forget their own lowly state, as having been created from
muddy clay?
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Note - 4041Cf. vi. 2; vii. 12; xxxii. 7; etc.
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I.e., out of primitive substances existing in their elementary forms in and on the earth (see surah {23}, note [4]) - substances which are as nothing when compared with the complexity of "the heavens and the earth and all that is between them": hence, man's individual resurrection is as nothing when compared with the creation of the multiform universe. |
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"Their": "they" are the doubters, the evil ones, the deniers of Allah's grace and mercy, who laugh at Revelation and disbelieve in a Hereafter. Are they more important or more difficult to create than the wonderful variety of beings in Allah's spacious Creation? Do they forget their own lowly state, as having been created from muddy clay? |
