Al-Insan Verse 1

Is there not a period of time when each human is nothing yet worth mentioning?[[ This is the time before a human comes into being and as an embryo.]]

Was there not a period of time when man was not a thing [even] mentioned?

Has there come on man a while of time when he was a thing unremembered?

Was there not a period of time when man was nothing to speak of ?

Surely there hath come upon man a space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.

Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?

Was there a period of time when man was not even worthy of a mention?

WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing?

Indeed there has been a time for man, when even his name did not exist anywhere.

Has there been a period of time for man when he was not anything worthy of mention?

Did there pass (– and surely there did pass –) over human a stretch of time when he was a thing not mentioned and remembered (as human)?

There did pass over a human being a while of a long space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.

Did (it) come on the human/mankind (a) period of time from the long time he was not a mentioned/remembered thing?

Indeed there has been a time for man, when even his name did not exist anywhere.

Was there not over man a long period of time when he was a thing unremembered (nothing, not worth mention).

Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was nothing to be mentioned?

Surely there came over man a time when he was nothing that could be mentioned.

There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning.

Hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered?

There was certainly a time when there was no mention of the human being.

Indeed, there came upon the human a period of time when he was an unremembered thing.

Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning

Was there not a period of time when man was nothing worth mentioning?

Has there come upon man a period of time when he was nothing to be mentioned?

Has there [ever] been -- there has indeed [been] -- for man, Adam, a period of time, forty years, in which he was a thing unmentioned? -- he was during this [period] a fashioned in clay and not mentioned; alternatively what is meant by insn, `man', is the generic noun and by hn, `a period of time', the period of gestation.

Allah created Man after He did not exist

Allah informs that He brought man into existence after he was not even a thing worth mentioning, due to his lowliness and weakness. Allah says,

هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الاِْنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْيًا مَّذْكُورًا




Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning?

Then Allah explains this by saying