Quran Verses about The creation of humankind

هُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن طِينٖ ثُمَّ قَضَىٰٓ أَجَلٗاۖ وَأَجَلٞ مُّسَمًّى عِندَهُۥۖ ثُمَّ أَنتُمۡ تَمۡتَرُونَ ٢

Huwal-ladhī khalaqakum min ṭīnin thumma qaḍā ajalā, wa ajalum musamman ʿindah, thumma antum tamtarūn.

It is He who created you from clay and then decreed a term¹ and a specified time [known] to Him;² then [still] you are in dispute.

وَلَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلۡصَٰلٖ مِّنۡ حَمَإٖ مَّسۡنُونٖ ٢٦

Wa laqad khalaqnal-insāna min ṣalṣālim min ḥamaʾim masnūn.

And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.

وَٱلۡجَآنَّ خَلَقۡنَٰهُ مِن قَبۡلُ مِن نَّارِ ٱلسَّمُومِ ٢٧

Wal-jānna khalaqnāhu min qablu min nāris-samūm.

And the jinn We created before from scorching fire.

وَإِذۡ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّي خَٰلِقُۢ بَشَرٗا مِّن صَلۡصَٰلٖ مِّنۡ حَمَإٖ مَّسۡنُونٖ ٢٨

Wa idh qāla rabbuka lil-malāʾikati innī khāliqum basharam min ṣalṣālim min ḥamaʾim masnūn.

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.

فَإِذَا سَوَّيۡتُهُۥ وَنَفَخۡتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِي فَقَعُواْ لَهُۥ سَٰجِدِينَ ٢٩

Fa idhā sawwaytuhū wa nafakhtu fīhi mir rūḥī faqaʿū lahū sājidīn.

And when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul,¹ then fall down to him in prostration."

وَمِنۡ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنۡ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ إِذَآ أَنتُم بَشَرٞ تَنتَشِرُونَ ٢٠

Wa min āyātihī an khalaqakum min turābin thumma idhā antum basharun tantashirūn.

And of His signs is that He created you from dust; then, suddenly you were human beings dispersing [throughout the earth].

إِذۡ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنِّي خَٰلِقُۢ بَشَرٗا مِّن طِينٖ ٧١

Idh qāla rabbuka lil-malāʾikati innī khāliqum basharam min ṭīn.

[So mention] when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I am going to create a human being from clay.

فَإِذَا سَوَّيۡتُهُۥ وَنَفَخۡتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِي فَقَعُواْ لَهُۥ سَٰجِدِينَ ٧٢

Fa idhā sawwaytuhū wa nafakhtu fīhi mir rūḥī faqaʿū lahū sājidīn.

So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul,¹ then fall down to him in prostration."

خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلۡصَٰلٖ كَٱلۡفَخَّارِ ١٤

Khalaqal-insāna min ṣalṣālin kal-fakhkhār.

He created man from clay like [that of] pottery.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُواْ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ وَخَلَقَ مِنۡهَا زَوۡجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنۡهُمَا رِجَالٗا كَثِيرٗا وَنِسَآءٗۚ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِي تَسَآءَلُونَ بِهِۦ وَٱلۡأَرۡحَامَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ رَقِيبٗا ١

Yāʾayyuhan-nāsuttaqū rabbakumul-ladhī khalaqakum min nafsiw wāḥidatiw wa khalaqa minhā zawjahā wa baththa minhumā rijālan kathīraw wa nisāʾā, wattaqullāhal-ladhī tasāʾalūna bihī wal-arḥām, innallāha kāna ʿalaykum raqībā.

O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allāh, through whom¹ you ask one another,² and the wombs.³ Indeed Allāh is ever,⁴ over you, an Observer.⁵

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَنشَأَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ فَمُسۡتَقَرّٞ وَمُسۡتَوۡدَعٞۗ قَدۡ فَصَّلۡنَا ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِ لِقَوۡمٖ يَفۡقَهُونَ ٩٨

Wa huwal-ladhī anshaʾakum min nafsiw wāḥidatin famustaqarruw wa mustawdaʿ, qad faṣṣalnal-āyāti liqawmiy yafqahūn.

And it is He who produced you from one soul and [gave you] a place of dwelling and of storage.¹ We have detailed the signs for a people who understand.

۞ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ وَجَعَلَ مِنۡهَا زَوۡجَهَا لِيَسۡكُنَ إِلَيۡهَاۖ فَلَمَّا تَغَشَّىٰهَا حَمَلَتۡ حَمۡلًا خَفِيفٗا فَمَرَّتۡ بِهِۦۖ فَلَمَّآ أَثۡقَلَت دَّعَوَا ٱللَّهَ رَبَّهُمَا لَئِنۡ ءَاتَيۡتَنَا صَٰلِحٗا لَّنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ ١٨٩

Huwal-ladhī khalaqakum min nafsiw wāḥidatiw wa jaʿala minhā zawjahā liyaskuna ilayhā, falammā taghashshāhā ḥamalat ḥamlan khafīfan famarrat bih, falammā athqalat daʿawallāha rabbahumā laʾin ātaytanā ṣāliḥal lanakūnanna minash-shākirīn.

It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate that he¹ might dwell in security with her. And when he [i.e., man] covers her,² she carries a light burden [i.e., a pregnancy] and continues therein. And when it becomes heavy, they both invoke Allāh, their Lord, "If You should give us a good³ [child], we will surely be among the grateful."

خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۡهَا زَوۡجَهَا وَأَنزَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَنۡعَٰمِ ثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَزۡوَٰجٖۚ يَخۡلُقُكُمۡ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمۡ خَلۡقٗا مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ خَلۡقٖ فِي ظُلُمَٰتٖ ثَلَٰثٖۚ ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمۡ لَهُ ٱلۡمُلۡكُۖ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَۖ فَأَنَّىٰ تُصۡرَفُونَ ٦

Khalaqakum min nafsiw wāḥidatin thumma jaʿala minhā zawjahā wa anzala lakum minal-anʿāmi thamāniyata azwāj, yakhluqukum fī buṭūni ummahātikum khalqam mim baʿdi khalqin fī ẓulumātin thalāth, dhālikumullāhu rabbukum lahul-mulk, lā ilāha illā huw, fa annā tuṣrafūn.

He created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates.¹ He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses.² That is Allāh, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you averted?

خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطۡفَةٖ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٞ مُّبِينٞ ٤

Khalaqal-insāna min nuṭfatin fa idhā huwa khaṣīmum mubīn.

He created man from a sperm-drop; then at once¹ he is a clear adversary.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمۡ فِي رَيۡبٖ مِّنَ ٱلۡبَعۡثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقۡنَٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطۡفَةٖ ثُمَّ مِنۡ عَلَقَةٖ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضۡغَةٖ مُّخَلَّقَةٖ وَغَيۡرِ مُخَلَّقَةٖ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمۡۚ وَنُقِرُّ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡحَامِ مَا نَشَآءُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٖ مُّسَمّٗى ثُمَّ نُخۡرِجُكُمۡ طِفۡلٗا ثُمَّ لِتَبۡلُغُوٓاْ أَشُدَّكُمۡۖ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرۡذَلِ ٱلۡعُمُرِ لِكَيۡلَا يَعۡلَمَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ عِلۡمٖ شَيۡـٔٗاۚ وَتَرَى ٱلۡأَرۡضَ هَامِدَةٗ فَإِذَآ أَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهَا ٱلۡمَآءَ ٱهۡتَزَّتۡ وَرَبَتۡ وَأَنۢبَتَتۡ مِن كُلِّ زَوۡجِۭ بَهِيجٖ ٥

Yāʾayyuhan-nāsu in kuntum fī raybim minal-baʿthi fa innā khalaqnākum min turābin thumma min nuṭfatin thumma min ʿalaqatin thumma mim muḍghatim mukhallaqatiw wa ghayri mukhallaqatil linubayyina lakum, wa nuqirru fil-arḥāmi mā nashāʾu ilā ajalim musamman thumma nukhrijukum ṭiflan thumma litablughū ashuddakum, wa minkum may yutawaffā wa minkum may yuraddu ilā ardhalil-ʿumuri likaylā yaʿlama mim baʿdi ʿilmin shayʾā, wa taral-arḍa hāmidatan fa idhā anzalnā ʿalayhal-māʾahtazzat wa rabat wa anbatat min kulli zawjim bahīj.

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 unformed¹ - that We may show you.² 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.

وَلَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٖ مِّن طِينٖ ١٢

Wa laqad khalaqnal-insāna min sulālatim min ṭīn.

And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.

ثُمَّ جَعَلۡنَٰهُ نُطۡفَةٗ فِي قَرَارٖ مَّكِينٖ ١٣

Thumma jaʿalnāhu nuṭfatan fī qarārim makīn.

Then We placed him as a sperm-drop¹ in a firm lodging [i.e., the womb].

ثُمَّ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلنُّطۡفَةَ عَلَقَةٗ فَخَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡعَلَقَةَ مُضۡغَةٗ فَخَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡمُضۡغَةَ عِظَٰمٗا فَكَسَوۡنَا ٱلۡعِظَٰمَ لَحۡمٗا ثُمَّ أَنشَأۡنَٰهُ خَلۡقًا ءَاخَرَۚ فَتَبَارَكَ ٱللَّهُ أَحۡسَنُ ٱلۡخَٰلِقِينَ ١٤

Thumma khalaqnan-nuṭfata ʿalaqatan fakhalaqnal-ʿalaqata muḍghatan fakhalaqnal-muḍghata ʿiẓāman fakasawnal-ʿiẓāma laḥman thumma anshaʾnāhu khalqan ākhar, fatabārakallāhu aḥsanul-khāliqīn.

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 Allāh, the best of creators.¹

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ مِنَ ٱلۡمَآءِ بَشَرٗا فَجَعَلَهُۥ نَسَبٗا وَصِهۡرٗاۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرٗا ٥٤

Wa huwal-ladhī khalaqa minal-māʾi basharan fajaʿalahū nasabaw wa ṣihrā, wa kāna rabbuka qadīrā.

And it is He who has created from water [i.e., semen] a human being and made him [a relative by] lineage and marriage. And ever is your Lord competent [concerning creation].

ٱلَّذِيٓ أَحۡسَنَ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ خَلَقَهُۥۖ وَبَدَأَ خَلۡقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنِ مِن طِينٖ ٧

Al-ladhī aḥsana kulla shayʾin khalaqah, wa badaʾa khalqal-insāni min ṭīn.

Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of man from clay.

ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسۡلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٖ مِّن مَّآءٖ مَّهِينٖ ٨

Thumma jaʿala naslahū min sulālatim mim māʾim mahīn.

Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained.

ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰهُ وَنَفَخَ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِهِۦۖ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمۡعَ وَٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرَ وَٱلۡأَفۡـِٔدَةَۚ قَلِيلٗا مَّا تَشۡكُرُونَ ٩

Thumma sawwāhu wa nafakha fīhi mir rūḥih, wa jaʿala lakumus-samʿa wal-abṣāra wal-afʾidah, qalīlam mā tashkurūn.

Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul¹ and made for you hearing and vision and hearts [i.e., intellect]; little are you grateful.

وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطۡفَةٖ ثُمَّ جَعَلَكُمۡ أَزۡوَٰجٗاۚ وَمَا تَحۡمِلُ مِنۡ أُنثَىٰ وَلَا تَضَعُ إِلَّا بِعِلۡمِهِۦۚ وَمَا يُعَمَّرُ مِن مُّعَمَّرٖ وَلَا يُنقَصُ مِنۡ عُمُرِهِۦٓ إِلَّا فِي كِتَٰبٍۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ يَسِيرٞ ١١

Wallāhu khalaqakum min turābin thumma min nuṭfatin thumma jaʿalakum azwājā, wa mā taḥmilu min unthā wa lā taḍaʿu illā biʿilmih, wa mā yuʿammaru mim muʿammariw wa lā yunqaṣu min ʿumurihī illā fī kitāb, inna dhālika ʿalallāhi yasīr.

And Allāh 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 Allāh is easy.

هُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٖ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطۡفَةٖ ثُمَّ مِنۡ عَلَقَةٖ ثُمَّ يُخۡرِجُكُمۡ طِفۡلٗا ثُمَّ لِتَبۡلُغُوٓاْ أَشُدَّكُمۡ ثُمَّ لِتَكُونُواْ شُيُوخٗاۚ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ مِن قَبۡلُۖ وَلِتَبۡلُغُوٓاْ أَجَلٗا مُّسَمّٗى وَلَعَلَّكُمۡ تَعۡقِلُونَ ٦٧

Huwal-ladhī khalaqakum min turābin thumma min nuṭfatin thumma min ʿalaqatin thumma yukhrijukum ṭiflan thumma litablughū ashuddakum thumma litakūnū shuyūkhā, wa minkum may yutawaffā min qabl, walitablughū ajalam musammaw wa laʿallakum taʿqilūn.

It is He who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot; then He brings you out as a child; then [He develops you] that you reach your [time of] maturity, then [further] that you become elders. And among you is he who is taken in death before [that], so that you reach a specified term;¹ and perhaps you will use reason.

وَأَنَّهُۥ خَلَقَ ٱلزَّوۡجَيۡنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلۡأُنثَىٰ ٤٥

Wa annahū khalaqaz-zawjaynidh-dhakara wal-unthā.

And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -

مِن نُّطۡفَةٍ إِذَا تُمۡنَىٰ ٤٦

Min nuṭfatin idhā tumnā.

From a sperm-drop when it is emitted

وَقَدۡ خَلَقَكُمۡ أَطۡوَارًا ١٤

Wa qad khalaqakum aṭwārā.

While He has created you in stages?¹

أَلَمۡ يَكُ نُطۡفَةٗ مِّن مَّنِيّٖ يُمۡنَىٰ ٣٧

Alam yaku nuṭfatam mim maniyyiy yumnā.

Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?

ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةٗ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ٣٨

Thumma kāna ʿalaqatan fakhalaqa fasawwā.

Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allāh] created [his form] and proportioned [him]

فَجَعَلَ مِنۡهُ ٱلزَّوۡجَيۡنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلۡأُنثَىٰٓ ٣٩

Fajaʿala minhuz-zawjaynidh-dhakara wal-unthā.

And made of him two mates, the male and the female.

إِنَّا خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطۡفَةٍ أَمۡشَاجٖ نَّبۡتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُ سَمِيعَۢا بَصِيرًا ٢

Innā khalaqnal-insāna min nuṭfatin amshājin nabtalīhi fajaʿalnāhu samīʿam baṣīrā.

Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture¹ that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.

أَلَمۡ نَخۡلُقكُّم مِّن مَّآءٖ مَّهِينٖ ٢٠

Alam nakhluqkkum mim māʾim mahīn.

Did We not create you from a liquid disdained?

فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُ فِي قَرَارٖ مَّكِينٍ ٢١

Fajaʿalnāhu fī qarārim makīn.

And We placed it in a firm lodging [i.e., the womb]

إِلَىٰ قَدَرٖ مَّعۡلُومٖ ٢٢

Ilā qadarim maʿlūm.

For a known extent.

مِنۡ أَيِّ شَيۡءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ١٨

Min ayyi shayʾin khalaqah.

From what thing [i.e., substance] did He create him?

مِن نُّطۡفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ١٩

Min nuṭfatin khalaqahū faqaddarah.

From a sperm-drop He created him and destined for him;¹

فَلۡيَنظُرِ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ ٥

Falyanẓuril-insānu mimma khuliq.

So let man observe from what he was created.

خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٖ دَافِقٖ ٦

Khuliqa mim māʾin dāfiq.

He was created from a fluid, ejected,

يَخۡرُجُ مِنۢ بَيۡنِ ٱلصُّلۡبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ ٧

Yakhruju mim bayniṣ-ṣulbi wat-tarāʾib.

Emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.

خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنۡ عَلَقٍ ٢

Khalaqal-insāna min ʿalaq.

Created man from a clinging substance.

هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡحَامِ كَيۡفَ يَشَآءُۚ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ ٦

Huwal-ladhī yuṣawwirukum fil-arḥāmi kayfa yashāʾ, lā ilāha illā huwal-ʿazīzul-ḥakīm.

It is He who forms you in the wombs however He wills. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَصَوَّرَكُمۡ فَأَحۡسَنَ صُوَرَكُمۡۖ وَإِلَيۡهِ ٱلۡمَصِيرُ ٣

Khalaqas-samāwāti wal-arḍa bil-ḥaqqi wa ṣawwarakum fa aḥsana ṣuwarakum, wa ilayhil-maṣīr.

He created the heavens and earth in truth and formed you and perfected your forms; and to Him is the [final] destination.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ ٱلۡكَرِيمِ ٦

Yāʾayyuhal-insānu mā gharraka birabbikal-karīm.

O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous,

ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّىٰكَ فَعَدَلَكَ ٧

Al-ladhī khalaqaka fasawwāka faʿadalak.

Who created you, proportioned you, and balanced you?

فِيٓ أَيِّ صُورَةٖ مَّا شَآءَ رَكَّبَكَ ٨

Fī ayyi ṣūratim mā shāʾa rakkabak.

In whatever form He willed has He assembled you.

لَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ فِيٓ أَحۡسَنِ تَقۡوِيمٖ ٤

Laqad khalaqnal-insāna fī aḥsani taqwīm.

We have certainly created man in the best of stature;¹