Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
She added: “O you nobles! Give me your opinion on the problem with which I am now faced; I would never make a [weighty] decision unless you are present with me.”
Arthur John Arberry
She said, 'O Council, pronounce to me concerning my affair; I am not used to decide an affair until you bear me witness.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
She said: "Ye chiefs! advise me in (this) my affair: no affair have I decided except in your presence."
Arabic
قَالَتۡ یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُا۟ أَفۡتُونِی فِیۤ أَمۡرِی مَا كُنتُ قَاطِعَةً أَمۡرًا حَتَّىٰ تَشۡهَدُونِ ٣٢
Transliteration (2021)
qālat yāayyuhā l-mala-u aftūnī fī amrī mā kuntu qāṭiʿatan amran ḥattā tashhadūn