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Surah 75. Al-Qiyamah, Ayah 38

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ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
Thumma k a na AAalaqatan fakhalaqa fasaww a
and thereafter became a germcell - whereupon He created and formed [it] in accordance with what [it] was meant to be,16
  - Mohammad Asad

For this rendering of sawwa, see note [1] on 87:2 and note [5] on 91:7 . The stress on God's creating man after he had been a germ-cell is a metonym for His endowing the (originally) lowly organism with what is described as a "soul".

Then he became a leechlike mass, then Allah created him and fashioned him in due proportion,
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Then they became a clinging clot 'of blood',1 then He developed and perfected their form,
  - Mustafa Khattab

 ’Alaqah, meaning the embryo resembles a leech.

Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Then did he become a leech-like clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him) in due proportion.
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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