Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
when he said unto his father and his people, “What are these images to which you are so intensely devoted?”
M. M. Pickthall
When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Behold! he said to his father and his people, "What are these images, to which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?"
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
˹Remember˺ when he questioned his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are so devoted?”
Safi Kaskas
when he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are devoted?”
Wahiduddin Khan
When he asked his father and his people, What are these images to which you are so devoted
Shakir
When he said to his father and his people: What are these images to whose worship you cleave
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
when he said to his father and his folk: What are these images to which you be ones who give yourselves up to?
T.B.Irving
when he told his father and his folk: "What are these images which you are so devoted to?"
Abdul Hye
When he said to his father and his people: “What are these images which you are devoted to?”
The Study Quran
when he said unto his father and his people, “What are these images to which you are cleaving?
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
He questioned his father and his people, “What are these idols to which you are so devoted?”
Talal Itani (2012)
When he said to his father and his people, 'What are these statues to which you are devoted?'
Dr. Kamal Omar
When he said to his father and his nation: “What are these carved statues, those to which you remain confined in devotion?”
Remember that occasion when Abraham asked his father and his people, "What are these images to which you are so devoted?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
As he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are consecrating (yourselves)?"
Muhammad Sarwar
Abraham asked his father and his people, "What are these statues which you worship?"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
when he said to his father and his people, .What are these statues you are devoted to?
Shabbir Ahmed
He said to his father and his folk, "What are these images and statues that you sit around worshiping?"
Dr. Munir Munshey
When he once said to his father and his people, "What are these statues you are worshipping so devoutly?"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these images, to which you are (strongly) devoted?"
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
As he said to his father and people: "What are these statues to which you are devoted"
Abdel Haleem
He said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images to which you are so devoted?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Recall what time he said unto his father and his people what are these images to which ye are cleaving
Ahmed Ali
When he said to his father and his people: "What are these idols to which you cling so passionately?"
Aisha Bewley
When he said to his father and his people, ´What are these statues you are clinging to?´
Ali Ünal
He said to his father and people: "What are these images to which you pay such sincere devotion?"
Ali Quli Qara'i
when he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images to which you keep on clinging?’
Hamid S. Aziz
When he said to his father and to his people, "What are these images to which you pay devotion?"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
When he said to his father and his people: “What are these statues that you are devoted to them?”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Behold, he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are devoted?
Musharraf Hussain
Remember when He said to his father and the community: “What are these idols you worship?”
Maududi
Recall, when he said to his father and his people: "What are these images to which you are devoutly clinging?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
As he said to his father and people: "What are these images to which you are devoted?"
Mohammad Shafi
When he asked his father and his people, "What statues are these that you are so devoted to?"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
When he said to his father and his people, 'what are these images before which you are sitting firmly.' (for worship).
He said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoting yourselves?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
He said to his father and to his nation: 'What, are these the statues to which you cling?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
When he said to his sire and his people: What are these images to whose worship you cleave
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
When he said to his father and to his nation: "What (are) these the statues which you are to it devoting/dedicating ?"
Bijan Moeinian
He asked his father and his people: “What are these images that you show such a devotion to them?”
Faridul Haque
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these idols before whom you squat (worshipping)?"
Sher Ali
When he said to his father and his people, `What are these images to which you are so devoted?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
When he said to his father (i.e., uncle) and his people: ‘What idols are these (whose worship) you are stuck to, squatting?
Amatul Rahman Omar
(Recall the time) when he said to his sire and his people, `What (good) are these images to which you sit down to worship with so much devotion?
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
When he said to his father and his people: "What are these images, to which you are devoted?"
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
When he said to his father and to his people, “What are these images to which you are so avowedly devoted?”
Munir Mezyed
He said to his father and his people: ‘What are these sculptures to which you are so diligently devoted?’
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
When he said to his father and his people: what are these images you are devoted to?
Linda “iLHam” Barto
He said to his father and his people, “What are these images to which you are devoted?”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
when he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are devoted?”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
when he told his father and his folk: "What are these images which you are so devoted to?"
Samy Mahdy
When he said to his father and his kinfolk, “What are these, the statues which you are for them, devoting?”
Sayyid Qutb
when he said to his father and his people, 'What are these images to which you are so devoted?'
Ahmed Hulusi
When he (Abraham) asked his father and people, “What are these statues that you worship?”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
When he said to his father and his people: �What are these images (and lifeless statues) unto which you pay devotion�
He asked his father and his people: "what are these statues and images you regard with reverence and veneration"
Mir Aneesuddin
And earlier We gave Ibrahim (instructions to follow) the way (which was) right for him and We knew about him
The Wise Quran
When he said to his father and his people, 'What are these images to which you pay devotion?'