Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and so we desired that their Sustainer grant them in his stead [a child] of greater purity than him, and closer [to them] in loving tenderness
Arthur John Arberry
so we desired that their Lord should give to them in exchange one better than he in purity, and nearer in tenderness
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection
Arabic
فَأَرَدۡنَاۤ أَن یُبۡدِلَهُمَا رَبُّهُمَا خَیۡرࣰا مِّنۡهُ زَكَوٰةࣰ وَأَقۡرَبَ رُحۡمࣰا ٨١
Transliteration (2021)
fa-aradnā an yub'dilahumā rabbuhumā khayran min'hu zakatan wa-aqraba ruḥ'ma