Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
when he said unto his father and his people, “What are these images to which you are so intensely devoted?”
Arthur John Arberry
when he said to his father and his people, 'What are these statues unto which you are cleaving?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Behold! he said to his father and his people, "What are these images, to which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?"
Arabic
إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِیهِ وَقَوۡمِهِۦ مَا هَـٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِیلُ ٱلَّتِیۤ أَنتُمۡ لَهَا عَـٰكِفُونَ ٥٢
Transliteration (2021)
idh qāla li-abīhi waqawmihi mā hādhihi l-tamāthīlu allatī antum lahā ʿākifūn