Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[And so, on Resurrection Day, the sinner] will ask: "O my Sustainer! Why hast Thou raised me up blind, whereas [on earth] I was endowed with sight?"
Arthur John Arberry
He shall say, 'O my Lord, why hast thou raised me blind, and I was wont to see?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He will say: "O my Lord! why hast Thou raised me up blind, while I had sight (before)?"
Arabic
قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرۡتَنِیۤ أَعۡمَىٰ وَقَدۡ كُنتُ بَصِیرࣰا ١٢٥
Transliteration (2021)
qāla rabbi lima ḥashartanī aʿmā waqad kuntu baṣīra