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Muhammad Asad   
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What is the matter with you? How do you judge?

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Arabic   
مَا لَكُمۡ كَیۡفَ تَحۡكُمُونَ ۝٣٦
Transliteration (2021)   
mā lakum kayfa taḥkumūn
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more   
What (is) for you? How (do) you judge?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
What is amiss with you? On what do you base your judgment [of right and wrong]
M. M. Pickthall   
What aileth you? How foolishly ye judge
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
What is the matter with you? How judge ye
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
Safi Kaskas   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
Wahiduddin Khan   
What ails you? How ill you judge
Shakir   
What has happened to you? How do you judge
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
What is the matter with you? How you give judgment!
T.B.Irving   
What is wrong with you? How do you decide matters?
Abdul Hye   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
The Study Quran   
What ails you? How do you judge
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
What’s the matter with you? How do you judge?
Talal Itani (2012)   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge
Dr. Kamal Omar   
What (is the matter) with you? How do you judge
M. Farook Malik   
What is the matter with you? What kind of Judgment do you make
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
What is it with you? How do you judge
Muhammad Sarwar   
What is the matter with you? How could you judge this to be so
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
What has happened to you? How do you judge
Shabbir Ahmed   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge (the right and wrong and their logical consequence)
Dr. Munir Munshey   
What is wrong with you? How do you draw your conclusions
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
What is the matter with you? How can you judge
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)   
What is wrong with you, how do you judge?
Abdel Haleem   
What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
What aileth you? How ill ye judge
Ahmed Ali   
What has come upon you that you judge in such a wise
Aisha Bewley   
What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge?
Ali Ünal   
What is the matter with you (that you can judge so)? How can you judge (that all are valued alike in God’s sight whether they are Muslims or not)
Ali Quli Qara'i   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge
Hamid S. Aziz   
What ails you? How do you judge
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
What is with you, how do you judge (like this)?
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
What is the matter with you, how do you judge
Musharraf Hussain   
What is the matter with you; what makes you judge in this way?
Maududi   
What is the matter with you? How ill do you judge
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
What is wrong with you, how do you judge?
Mohammad Shafi   
What is the matter with you? How ill you judge

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
What happened to you? How you judge?
Rashad Khalifa   
What is wrong with your logic?
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
What is the matter with you then, how do you judge
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
What/why (is it) for you, how you judge/rule
Bijan Moeinian   
What is wrong with you? What kind of logic is that the sinner and the obedient should be treated equally
Faridul Haque   
What is the matter with you? What sort of a judgement you impose
Sher Ali   
What is the matter with you? How judge ye
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
What is the matter with you? How do you make a judgment
Amatul Rahman Omar   
What is wrong with you? How (ill) you judge
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
What is the matter with you? How judge you

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
What ails you then, how you judge
George Sale   
What aileth you that ye judge thus
Edward Henry Palmer   
What ails you? how ye judge
John Medows Rodwell   
What hath befallen you that ye thus judge
N J Dawood (2014)   
What has come over you¹ that you should judge so ill

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
What is amiss with you? What is this manner in which you make judgments?
Munir Mezyed   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
What is the matter with you, how do you judge?
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
What is wrong with you? Why would you think that?
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
What is the matter with youpl? How do you judge?
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
What is wrong with you? How do you decide matters?
Samy Mahdy   
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
Ahmed Hulusi   
What is wrong with you! How do you judge?
Mir Aneesuddin   
What is (wrong) with you? How do you judge?
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
How could you be so bold -you people- as to think beyond all bounds of prudence and discretion
The Wise Quran   
What ails you? How do you judge?

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
What is the matter with you? How judge ye
OLD Literal Word for Word   
What (is) for you? How (do) you judge
OLD Transliteration   
Ma lakum kayfa tahkumoona