أَوَلَا يَذْكُرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْـًٔا
Awal a ya th kuru alins a nu ann a khalaqn a hu min qablu walam yaku shay a n But does man not bear in mind that We have created him aforetime out of nothing?51
 - Mohammad Asad
Does not the man remember that We created him before out of nothing?
 - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Do 'such' people not remember that We created them before, when they were nothing?
 - Mustafa Khattab
Doth not man remember that We created him before, when he was naught?
 - Marmaduke Pickthall
But does not man call to mind that We created him before out of nothing?
 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali