Qur'an 76:1 Al-Insan
هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ حِينٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْـًۭٔا مَّذْكُورًا
Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned?
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What it says
Hal is a question in form and a statement in effect, and the answer it expects is yes, it did come. What came is a stretch of time in which the human being was not a thing anyone named. The surah opens by putting a person at the point before he existed, and nothing is asked of him yet.
Word by word
هَلْ hal has · أَتَىٰ atā come · عَلَى ʿalā upon · ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ al-insāni the human being · حِينٌ ḥīnun a period · مِّنَ mina of · ٱلدَّهْرِ ad-dahri the long age · لَمْ lam not · يَكُن yakun he was · شَيْـًٔا shayʾan a thing · مَّذْكُورًا madhkūran mentioned
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