Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And had We so willed, [O you who worship angels,] We could indeed have made you into angels succeeding one another on earth
Arthur John Arberry
Had We willed, We would have appointed angels among you to be successors in the earth
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And if it were Our Will, We could make angels from amongst you, succeeding each other on the earth
Arabic
وَلَوۡ نَشَاۤءُ لَجَعَلۡنَا مِنكُم مَّلَـٰۤىِٕكَةࣰ فِی ٱلۡأَرۡضِ یَخۡلُفُونَ ٦٠
Transliteration (2021)
walaw nashāu lajaʿalnā minkum malāikatan fī l-arḍi yakhlufūn