Verily We created man out of a drop of intermingled sperm so that We might try him, and We therefore endowed him with hearing and sight.

It was clearly and unmistakably his earlier voice, but in it was intermingled, as if from below, an irrepressibly painful squeaking, which left the words positively distinct only in the first moment and distorted them in the reverberation, so that one didn't know if one had heard correctly.