Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and make for yourselves mighty castles, [hoping] that you might become immortal
Arthur John Arberry
and do you take to you castles, haply to dwell forever
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"And do ye get for yourselves fine buildings in the hope of living therein (for ever)
Arabic
وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَخۡلُدُونَ ١٢٩
Transliteration (2021)
watattakhidhūna maṣāniʿa laʿallakum takhludūn