قَالَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِنْ نَارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ طِينٍ

Word by Word (2021) Translation

He said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire and You created him from clay."

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Muhammad Asad

Answered [Iblis]: “I am better than he: Thou hast created me out of fire, whereas him Thou hast created out of clay.”

Arthur John Arberry

Said he, 'I am better than he; Thou createdst me of tire, and him Thou createdst of clay.

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

(Iblis) said: "I am better than he: thou createdst me from fire, and him thou createdst from clay."

Arabic

قَالَ أَنَا۠ خَيْرٌۭ مِّنْهُ ۖ خَلَقْتَنِى مِن نَّارٍۢ وَخَلَقْتَهُۥ مِن طِينٍۢ ۝٧٦

Transliteration

qāla anā khayrun min'hu khalaqtanī min nārin wakhalaqtahu min ṭīni

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