Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
They exclaimed: But we found our forefathers doing the same!”
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'Nay, but we found our fathers so doing.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said: "Nay, but we found our fathers doing thus (what we do)."
Arabic
قَالُوا۟ بَلۡ وَجَدۡنَاۤ ءَابَاۤءَنَا كَذَ ٰلِكَ یَفۡعَلُونَ ٧٤
Transliteration (2021)
qālū bal wajadnā ābāanā kadhālika yafʿalūn