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{ هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى ٱلإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ ٱلدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئاً مَّذْكُوراً }

Has there ever been — there has indeed been — for man Adam a period of time forty years in which he was a thing unmentioned? — he was during this period a fashioned in clay and not mentioned; alternatively what is meant by insān ‘man’ is the generic noun and by hīn ‘a period of time’ the period of gestation.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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