Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Said [Abraham]: “And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?”
M. M. Pickthall
(Abraham) said: And (afterward) what is your errand, O ye sent (from Allah)
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(Abraham) said: "And what, O ye Messengers, is your errand (now)?"
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
˹Later,˺ Abraham asked, “What is your mission, O messengers?”
Safi Kaskas
[Abraham] then enquired, "What is your business, messengers?"
Wahiduddin Khan
Abraham asked, What is your errand, O messengers
Shakir
He said: What is your affair then, O messengers
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Abraham said: O ones who are sent, what is your business?
T.B.Irving
He said: "Yet what is your errand, 0 emissaries?"
Abdul Hye
He (Abraham) said: “For what purpose you have come, O Messengers?”
The Study Quran
He said, “What is your errand, O messengers?
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
He asked, “What’s your business, O messengers?”
Talal Itani (2012)
He said, 'What is your business, O envoys?'
Dr. Kamal Omar
(Ibrahim) said: “So, what is your mission, O you who have been sent?”
Abraham asked: "O Divine Messengers, what is your errand?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Said he, "So, what is your concern, you Emissaries?"
Muhammad Sarwar
Abraham asked, "Messengers, what is your task?"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
He (Ibrahim) said (to the angels), .Then, what is your mission O messengers?
Shabbir Ahmed
Abraham said, "And now what is your task, O Messengers!"
Dr. Munir Munshey
(Ibraheem) said, "So what is your mission, oh you messengers."
Syed Vickar Ahamed
(Ibrahim) said: "Then for what purpose have you have come, O messengers?"
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
He said: "What is your undertaking, O messengers"
Abdel Haleem
Abraham said, ‘What is your errand, messengers?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
He said: what then is your errand! O ye sent ones
Ahmed Ali
He said: "What is then your business, O messengers?"
Aisha Bewley
He inquired, ´What, then, is your business, messengers?´
Ali Ünal
He (Abraham) said: "Then (after that), what is your concern, O you (heavenly) envoys?"
Ali Quli Qara'i
He said, ‘O messengers, what is now your errand?’
Hamid S. Aziz
He said, "What is your errand then, O Messengers!"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
He said: “You messengers, what is your business?”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
He said, “And what, O messengers, is your mission?
Musharraf Hussain
Ibrahim asked, “What’s the purpose of your coming, messengers?”
Maududi
Abraham said: "Envoys (of Allah), what is your errand?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
He said: "What is your undertaking, O messengers?"
Mohammad Shafi
Abraham said, "What is your mission then, O Messengers?"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Ibrahim said, 'and O angels! For what business you have come?
He said, "What are you up to, O messengers?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
'Messengers, ' said he (Abraham), 'what is your errand?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
He said: What is your errand, O messengers
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
He said: "So what (is) your matter/affair/concern, oh you the messengers?"
Bijan Moeinian
Abraham asked then: “It sounds that you have come to accomplish an important mission.”
Faridul Haque
Said Ibrahim, “What is your task, O the sent angels?”
Sher Ali
Abraham said, `Now what is your errand, O ye who have been sent?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Ibrahim (Abraham) said: ‘O deputed angels, what is your intent (for coming, apart from this good news)?
Amatul Rahman Omar
(Abraham) said (to them), `Now what is your errand, O you who have been sent (by God)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
(Ibrahim (Abraham)) said: "Then for what purpose you have come, O Messengers?"
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
He said, “And what is your business in hand O you the messengers!”
Munir Mezyed
He said: "What is your mission, O' Messengers?"
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
He said: So what have you come for, oh messengers?
Linda “iLHam” Barto
(Abraham) said, “O messengers, what is your errand now?”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
He said, “So what is your business, O emissaries?”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
He said: "Yet what is your errand, O emissaries?"
Samy Mahdy
He said, “So what is the condition of you, O messengers?”
Ahmed Hulusi
(Abraham) said, “O disclosed ones... What is your (real) business (purpose)?”
Mir Aneesuddin
He said, “Then what is your affair (for which you have been sent) O you messengers?”
And now, said Ibrahim to his guests, "what is the purpose of your visit, O you itinerant messengers?"
The Wise Quran
He said, 'Then what is your affair, O messengers?'