Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Thereupon she pointed to him. They exclaimed: "How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?"
Arthur John Arberry
Mary pointed to the child then; but they said, 'How shall we speak to one who is still in the cradle, a little child?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"
Arabic
فَأَشَارَتۡ إِلَیۡهِۖ قَالُوا۟ كَیۡفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَن كَانَ فِی ٱلۡمَهۡدِ صَبِیࣰّا ٢٩
Transliteration (2021)
fa-ashārat ilayhi qālū kayfa nukallimu man kāna fī l-mahdi ṣabiyya