Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Said [Pharaoh]: "And what of all the past generations?"
Arthur John Arberry
Pharaoh said, 'And what of the former generations?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(Pharaoh) said: "What then is the condition of previous generations?"
Arabic
قَالَ فَمَا بَالُ ٱلۡقُرُونِ ٱلۡأُولَىٰ ٥١
Transliteration (2021)
qāla famā bālu l-qurūni l-ūl