Surah As-Saffat (الصافات) • Those who set the Ranks

Quran 37:11

37:11

فَٱسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَم مَّنْ خَلَقْنَآ ۚ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُم مِّن طِينٍ لَّازِبٍۭ

fa-is'taftihim ahum ashaddu khalqan am man khalaqnā innā khalaqnāhum min ṭīnin lāzibin

Then inquire of them, [O Muḥammad], "Are they a stronger [or more difficult] creation or those [others] We have created?" Indeed, We created them [i.e., men] from sticky clay.

— Saheeh International

So [Prophet], ask the disbelievers: is it harder to create them than other beings We have created? We created them from sticky clay.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Then ask them (i.e. these polytheists, O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Are they stronger as creation, or those (others like the heavens and the earth and the mountains) whom We have created?" Verily, We created them of a sticky clay.

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

فَٱسْتَفْتِهِمْfa-is'taftihimThen ask them
أَهُمْahumAre they
أَشَدُّashaddua stronger
خَلْقًاkhalqancreation
أَمamor
مَّنْman(those) whom
خَلَقْنَآۚkhalaqnāWe have created
إِنَّاinnāIndeed, We
خَلَقْنَـٰهُمkhalaqnāhumcreated them
مِّنminfrom
طِينٍۢṭīnina clay
لَّازِبٍۭlāzibinsticky