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اِذْ قَالَ لِاَب۪يهِ وَقَوْمِه۪ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَۚ

Ith qala li-abeehi waqawmihi mathataAAbudoon

and said to his father and his people, ‘What are you worshipping?

  • Progressive Muslims

    When he said to his father and his people: "What are you worshiping"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And thus spoke to his father and his people, "What is that you worship?"

  • Sam Gerrans

    When he said to his father and his people: “What do you serve?

  • The Monotheist Group

    When he said to his father and his people: "What are you worshiping?"

  • Edip-Layth

    When he said to his father and his people: "What are you serving?"

  • Aisha Bewley

    and said to his father and his people, ‘What are you worshipping?

  • Rashad Khalifa

    He said to his father and his people, "What are you worshipping?

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    When he said to his father and his people: "What is this you worship?

  • Sahih International

    [And] when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?

  • Muhammad Asad

    and [thus] spoke to his father and his people: "What is it that you worship?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When he said unto his father and his folk: What is it that ye worship?

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    He questioned the truth of his peoples' system of faith and worship. He said to his father and to his people: "What is it that you worship?"

  • Bijan Moeinian

    He said to his father and his people: "What are these things that you worship?"

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    When he said to his father and to his people: "What is it that which you worship?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Behold! he said to his father and to his people, "What is that which ye worship?

  • Mustafa Khattab

    and said to his father and his people, "What are you worshipping?

  • Taqi Usmani

    when he said to his father and his people, "What is that which you worship?

  • Abdul Haleem

    He said to his father and his people, ‘What are you worshipping?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    when he said to his father and his folk, 'What do you serve?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    when he said to his father and his people, 'What is it that ye serve?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    When he said to his father and his people, " What is it that you worship?"

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    As he said to his father and his people, "What is it that you worship?

  • George Sale

    When he said unto his father and his people, what do ye worship?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    When he said to his father and to his people, "What is it that, which you worship?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (And) when he asked his sire and his people, `What is it that you worship?

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    when he said to his father and his people, ‘What is it that you are worshiping?