Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
when he spoke [thus] unto his father: "O my father! Why dost thou worship something that neither hears nor sees and can be of no avail whatever to thee
Arthur John Arberry
When he said to his father, 'Father, why worshippest thou that which neither hears nor sees, nor avails thee anything
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Behold, he said to his father: "O my father! why worship that which heareth not and seeth not, and can profit thee nothing
Arabic
إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِیهِ یَـٰۤأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعۡبُدُ مَا لَا یَسۡمَعُ وَلَا یُبۡصِرُ وَلَا یُغۡنِی عَنكَ شَیۡءࣰا ٤٢
Transliteration (2021)
idh qāla li-abīhi yāabati lima taʿbudu mā lā yasmaʿu walā yub'ṣiru walā yugh'nī ʿanka shaya