Ayah as-Saffat (Those Who Set The Ranks, Drawn up in Ranks, The Rangers) 37:91

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Muhammad Asad

Thereupon he approached their gods stealthily and said, “What! You do not eat [of the offerings placed before you]

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Then he ˹stealthily˺ advanced towards their gods, and said ˹mockingly˺, “Will you not eat ˹your offerings˺?

Safi Kaskas

Then he turned to their gods and said, "Will you not eat?

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فَرَاغَ إِلَىٰۤ ءَالِهَتِهِمۡ فَقَالَ أَلَا تَأۡكُلُونَ ۝٩١

Transliteration (2021)

farāgha ilā ālihatihim faqāla alā takulūn

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Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Then he turned to their gods and said, "Do not you eat?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

Thereupon he approached their gods stealthily and said, “What! You do not eat [of the offerings placed before you]

M. M. Pickthall

Then turned he to their gods and said: Will ye not eat

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Then did he turn to their gods and said, "will ye not eat (of the offerings before you)?..

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Then he ˹stealthily˺ advanced towards their gods, and said ˹mockingly˺, “Will you not eat ˹your offerings˺?

Safi Kaskas

Then he turned to their gods and said, "Will you not eat?

Wahiduddin Khan

He turned to their gods and said, Do you not eat

Shakir

Then he turned aside to their gods secretly and said: What! do you not eat

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

and he turned upon their gods then, said: Will you not eat?

T.B.Irving

so he shifted [his attention] to their (false) gods, and said: "Don´t you eat?

Abdul Hye

Then he turned to their idols and said: “Why don’t you eat (from food offered)?

The Study Quran

Then he went quietly to their gods and said, “Will you not eat

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

He turned towards their gods and said, “Do you not eat?”

Talal Itani (2012)

Then he turned to their gods, and said, 'will you not eat

Dr. Kamal Omar

Then (Ibrahim) turned to their aaliha and said: “Will you not eat (of these offerings available for you)

M. Farook Malik

He sneaked into the temple of their gods and addressed them: "Why don’t you eat from these offerings before you

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So he went apart to their gods; then he said, "Will you not eat

Muhammad Sarwar

and he turned to their idols and asked them, "Do you eat

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

And he made his way to their ‘gods‘ and said to them, .Why would you not eat

Shabbir Ahmed

Then Abraham gently turned to their idols and said, "What! You do not eat

Dr. Munir Munshey

Stealthily, he approached their gods and said, "Why do you not eat (the offerings)?"

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then he turned to their gods and said: "Will you not eat (from what is offered to you)?..

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Then he turned to their gods and said, "Do you not eat

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

He then went to their idols and said: "Can you not eat"

Abdel Haleem

He turned to their gods and said

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then he slipped Unto their gods and said: eat ye no

Ahmed Ali

Then he turned towards their gods and said: "Why do you not eat (of these offerings)

Aisha Bewley

He turned surreptitiously to their gods and said, ´Do you not eat?

Ali Ünal

Thereupon he approached their deities, and said, "Will you not eat (of the offerings put before you)

Ali Quli Qara'i

Then he stole away to their gods and said, ‘Will you not eat

Hamid S. Aziz

Then he turned to their gods secretly and said, "What! Do you not eat

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

Then he turned to their gods and said: “Will you not eat?

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Then he turned to their gods and said, “Will you not eat

Musharraf Hussain

So he quietly went to the temple full of idols and spoke with the idols: “Don’t you eat?

Maududi

Then he went quietly to the (temple of the deities) and said: "What is the matter with you, why do you not eat

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

He then went to their gods and said: "Can you not eat?

Mohammad Shafi

Then he secretly turned to their gods and asked them, "Don't you eat?"

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then he walked towards their gods secretly and said, 'do you not eat'?

Rashad Khalifa

He then turned on their idols, saying, "Would you like to eat?

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Then he turned to their gods, and said: 'What do you eat

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Then he turned to their gods and said: Do you not eat

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

So he conned his way to their gods, so he said: "Do you not eat?"

Bijan Moeinian

[At their absence,] Abraham went to the temple and [started to talk to the idols and] said: “Do you want something to eat?”

Faridul Haque

He then sneaked upon their deities and said, “Do you not eat?”

Sher Ali

The he went quietly to their gods and addressing them said, `Will you not eat

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then Ibrahim (Abraham) went up to their gods (idols) quietly and said to them: ‘Do you not eat

Amatul Rahman Omar

Then he turned (his attention) towards their gods and (with a mind to make their worshippers realise their folly) said (addressing the gods), `Do you not eat (any of the things that lie before you)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Then he turned to their aliha (gods) and said: "Will you not eat (of the offering before you)

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

Then he turned to their gods, and said, 'What do you eat

George Sale

And Abraham went privately to their gods, and said scoffingly unto them, do ye not eat of the meat which is set before you

Edward Henry Palmer

And he went aside unto their gods and said, 'Will ye not eat

John Medows Rodwell

He went aside to their gods and said, "Do ye not eat

N J Dawood (2014)

He stole away to their idols and said: ‘Will you not eat

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Fode Drame

Then he turned around to their gods and said, “Will you not eat?

Munir Mezyed

Then he turned to their gods and said: “What! Do you not eat?

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

So he turned to their gods and said: don´t you eat?

Linda “iLHam” Barto

He turned to their gods and said, “Will you not eat?

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

whereupon he turned to their gods and said, “Will you^pl not eat?

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

so he shifted [his attention] to their (false) gods, and said: "Don’t you eat?

Samy Mahdy

So he creeped to their gods, so he said, “will you not eat?

Sayyid Qutb

He then approached their deities stealthily and said: 'Will you not eat [your offerings]?

Ahmed Hulusi

So (Abraham) approached their gods and said, “Will you not eat?”

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

Then he turned unto their gods secretly and (mockingly) said: Why do you not eat?

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

Then he turned to their false gods (food was set before them) and asked them, thus: "Do you not eat!"

Mir Aneesuddin

Then he turned towards their (false) gods and said, “Why do you not eat?

The Wise Quran

Then he turned aside to their gods and said, 'Will you not eat?

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Then did he turn to their gods and said, "will ye not eat (of the offerings before you)?..

OLD Literal Word for Word

Then he turned to their gods and said, "Do not you eat

OLD Transliteration

Faragha ila alihatihim faqala ala ta/kuloona

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