Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
He added: "And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?"
M. M. Pickthall
He said: And afterward what is your business, O ye messengers (of Allah)
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
He ˹then˺ added, “What is your mission, O messenger-angels?”
Safi Kaskas
He added: "And, heavenly messengers, what [else] might you have in mind?"
Wahiduddin Khan
Then he asked, What then is your business, O messengers
Shakir
He said: What is your business then, O messengers
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
He said: Then, what is your business, O the ones who are sent?
T.B.Irving
He said: "Yet what is your errand, you emissaries?"
Abdul Hye
(Abraham again) said: “Then what is your mission, O Messengers?”
The Study Quran
He said, “What is your errand
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
He then inquired, “What’s your mission, O messengers?”
Talal Itani (2012)
He said, 'So what is your business, O envoys?'
Dr. Kamal Omar
(Ibrahim further) said: “So, what is your assigned mission, O you the sent-ones
Then he asked: "On what expedition you have been sent, O emissaries of Allah?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
He said, "So, what is your concern, you Emissaries?"
Muhammad Sarwar
Messengers, what is your task?"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
He said, .Then, what is your mission, O messengers?
Shabbir Ahmed
He added, "And afterward what is your mission O Messengers?"
Dr. Munir Munshey
Said, "What is your mission, Oh angels?"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Ibrahim (Abraham) said: "Then what is the (other) business on which you (have come), O you messengers (of Allah)?"
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
He said: "What then is your business here, O messengers"
Abdel Haleem
and then asked, ‘Messengers, what is your errand?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
He said: what is your errand, sent ones
Ahmed Ali
And asked them: "What matter, O angels, brings you here?"
Aisha Bewley
He added, ´What is your business, messengers?´
Ali Ünal
He said: "Then (after that) what is your concern, O you (heavenly) envoys?"
Ali Quli Qara'i
He said, ‘O messengers, what is now your errand?’
Hamid S. Aziz
He said, "What then is your business, O you messengers?"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
He said: “So what is your business, messengers?”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Abraham said, “What then is the business on which you have come, O you messengers?
Musharraf Hussain
He then asked, “Messengers, what’s your mission?”
Maududi
He added: "What is your errand O sent ones?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
He said: "What then is your affair, O messengers?"
Mohammad Shafi
He said, "What is your mission then, O Messengers?"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
He said 'What now is your business O Messenger.
He said, "What is your mission, O messengers?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
He asked: 'Messengers, what is your errand?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
He said: What is your business, then, O messengers
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
He said: "So what (is) your matter/affair/concern, you, the messengers?"
Bijan Moeinian
He continued: “What is your mission.”
Faridul Haque
He said, "And what is your next task, O the sent angels?"
Sher Ali
He said, `What now is your real business, O ye messengers?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Ibrahim (Abraham) asked: ‘O deputed angels (sent by Allah), what other assignment do you have (to accomplish besides these glad tidings for which you have come)?
Amatul Rahman Omar
He added, `O you messengers! what is your real business then?
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
(Ibrahim (Abraham) again) said: "What then is the business on which you have come, O Messengers?"
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
He said, “What then is your business in hand O you the messengers?”
Munir Mezyed
He said: ‘What then is your mission, O’ Messengers?’
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
He said: So what have you come for, oh messengers?
Linda “iLHam” Barto
(Abraham) said, “With what other errand have you come, O messengers?”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
He said, “So what is your business, O emissaries?”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
He said: "Yet what is your errand, you emissaries?"
Samy Mahdy
He said, “So what is the condition of you, O the messengers?”
Sayyid Qutb
[Abraham] said: 'What is your business, you [heavenly] messengers?'
Ahmed Hulusi
(Abraham) said, “O disclosed ones! What (else) is your function?”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
He said: 'What is your business, then, O' you (Divine) messengers
"And now", Ibrahim said, "what is the errand on which you Messengers have come?"
Mir Aneesuddin
He said, “ Then what is your (other) business O you messengers?”
The Wise Quran
He said, 'Then what is your affair, O messengers?'