هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ حِينٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئًا مَذْكُورًا
Ahmed Ali
WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing?
Ahmed Raza Khan
Indeed there has been a time for man, when even his name did not exist anywhere.
Arberry
Has there come on man a while of time when he was a thing unremembered?
Asad
HAS THERE [not] been an endless span of time before man [appeared - a time] when he was not yet a thing to be thought of?
Daryabadi
Surely there hath come upon man a space of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning.
Hilali & Khan
Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was nothing to be mentioned?
ClearQuran - God
Has there come upon man a period of time when he was nothing to be mentioned?
ClearQuran - Allah
Has there come upon man a period of time when he was nothing to be mentioned?
Community - God
Has there come upon the human being a span of time when he was nothing to be mentioned?
Community - Allah
Has there come upon the human being a span of time when he was nothing to be mentioned?
Khattab
Is there not a period of time when each human is nothing yet worth mentioning?
Maududi
Was there a period of time when man was not even worthy of a mention?
Mubarakpuri
Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning
Pickthall
Hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered?
Qarai
Has there been a period of time for man when he was not anything worthy of mention?
Qaribullah & Darwish
Indeed, there came upon the human a period of time when he was an unremembered thing.
Saheeh International
Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned?
Sarwar
There was certainly a time when there was no mention of the human being.
Shakir
There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning.
Transliteration
Hal ata AAala alinsani heenun mina alddahri lam yakun shayan mathkooran
Transliteration 2
hal atā ʿalā l-insāni ḥīnun mina l-dahri lam yakun shayan madhkūran
Wahiduddin Khan
Was there not a period of time when man was nothing worth mentioning?
Yusuf Ali
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?
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