Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
[how it was] when he asked his father and his people, “What is it that you worship?”
M. M. Pickthall
When he said unto his father and his folk: What worship ye
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Behold, he said to his father and his people: "What worship ye?"
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
when he questioned his father and his people, “What is that you worship ˹besides Allah˺?”
Safi Kaskas
when he asked his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Wahiduddin Khan
when he asked his father and his people, What is that which you worship
Shakir
When he said to his father and his people: What do you worship
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
when he said to his father and his folk: What is it you worship?
T.B.Irving
when he said to his father and his folk: "What are you worshipping?"
Abdul Hye
when he (Abraham) said his father and his people: “What do you worship?”
The Study Quran
when he said to his father and his people, “What are you worshipping?
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
When he asked his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Talal Itani (2012)
When he said to his father and his people, 'What do you worship?'
Dr. Kamal Omar
When he said to his father and his nation: “What is it that you worship?”
when he asked his father and his people: "What is that which you worship?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
As he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship
Muhammad Sarwar
Tell them the story of Abraham
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
when he said to his father and to his people, .What do you worship?
Shabbir Ahmed
When he said to his father and his people, "What is it that you worship?"
Dr. Munir Munshey
As he asked his father and his people, "Whom do you worship?"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
When he said to his father and his people "What do you worship?"
When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
When he said to his father and his people: "What do you worship"
Abdel Haleem
when he asked his father and his people, ‘What do you worship?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
When he said unto his father and his people: what worship ye
Ahmed Ali
When he asked his father and his people: "What do you worship?"
Aisha Bewley
when he said to his father and his people, ´What do you worship?´
Ali Ünal
When he said to his father and his people: "What is it that you worship?"
Ali Quli Qara'i
when he said to his father and his people, ‘What is it that you are worshiping?!’
Hamid S. Aziz
When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
When he said to his father and his people: “What do you serve?”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Behold, he said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?
Musharraf Hussain
when he asked his father and community: “What do you worship?”
Maududi
when he asked his father and his people: "What do you worship?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
When he said to his father and his people: "What do you worship?
Mohammad Shafi
When he asked his father and his people, "What is it this that you worship?"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
When he said to his father and his people, 'what do you worships
He said to his father and his people, "What is this you are worshiping?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
He said to his father and to his nation: 'What do you worship?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
When he said to his sire and his people: What do you worship
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
When He said to his father and his nation: "What (do) you worship?"
Bijan Moeinian
Once in a gathering he said to his father and the present people: “What are these things that you worship?”
Faridul Haque
When he said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Sher Ali
When he said to his father and his people, What do you worship
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
When he said to his father* and his people: ‘What do you worship?
Amatul Rahman Omar
When he said to his sire and his people, `What things are those which you worship?
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
When he said to his father and his people: "What do you worship?"
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
When he said to his father and his people, “What are you worshipping?”
Munir Mezyed
When he said to his father and his people: ‘What is it that which you devotedly worship?’
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
When he said to his father and his people: what do you serve?
Linda “iLHam” Barto
He said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
when he said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
when he said to his father and his folk: "What are you worshipping?"
Samy Mahdy
When he said to his father and his kinfolk, “What are you worshiping?”
Sayyid Qutb
when he said to his father and his people: 'What is that you worship?'
Ahmed Hulusi
How he had asked his father and his people, “What is that which you serve?”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
When he said to his father and his people: �What do you worship?
He asked his father and his people: "What do you people worship?"
Mir Aneesuddin
when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
The Wise Quran
When he said to his father and his people, 'What do you serve?'