19. Surah Maryam, Verse 29
فَاَشَارَتْ اِلَيْهِ۠ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِياًّ
Faasharat ilayhi qaloo kayfanukallimu man kana fee almahdi sabiyya
She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can a baby in the cradle speak?’
- Progressive Muslims
So she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to someone who is a child in a cradle"
- Shabbir Ahmed
Then she pointed to him. They said, "How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?" (In the cradle, idiomatically means a young person. Mary and Joseph had stayed in Bethlehem for several years).
- Sam Gerrans
Then she pointed to him. They said: “How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?”
- The Monotheist Group
So she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to someone who is a child in a cradle?"
- Edip-Layth
So she pointed to him. They said, "How can we talk to someone who is a child in a cradle?"
- Aisha Bewley
She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can a baby in the cradle speak?’
- Rashad Khalifa
She pointed to him. They said, "How can we talk with an infant in the crib?"
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
But she pointed towards him. "How can we talk to one, " they said, "who is only an infant in the cradle?"
- Sahih International
So she pointed to him. They said, "How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?"
- Muhammad Asad
Thereupon she pointed to him. They exclaimed: "How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
She simply pointed her finger at him -the babe- with an intimation, as it were, that they ask or speak to him. But they exclaimed: "How in Allah's Name can we discourse with a new born babe?"
- Bijan Moeinian
She pointed at the baby (meaning: Ask him. ) They said: "How can we talk to a new born baby?"
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Then she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?[1]"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"
- Mustafa Khattab
So she pointed to the baby. They exclaimed, "How can we talk to someone who is an infant in the cradle?"
- Taqi Usmani
So, she pointed towards him (the baby). They said, "How shall we speak to someone who is still a child in the cradle?"
- Abdul Haleem
She pointed at him. They said, ‘How can we converse with an infant?’
- Arthur John Arberry
Mary pointed to the child then; but they said, 'How shall we speak to one who is still in the cradle, a little child?'
- E. Henry Palmer
And she pointed to him, and they said, 'How are we to speak with one who is in the cradle a child?'
- Hamid S. Aziz
"O sister of Aaron! Your father was not a bad man, nor was your mother a harlot!"
- Mahmoud Ghali
So she pointed to him. They said, "How shall we speak to one who is (still) in the cradle, a young boy?"
- George Sale
But she made signs unto the child to answer them; and they said, how shall we speak to him, who is an infant in the cradle?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Then, she pointed to the baby (Jesus). They said: "How can we talk to one who is (only) a child in the cradle?"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Thereupon she pointed to him (- her son Jesus meaning thereby that he will answer them). They said, `How should we speak to one who was (till recently) a child in the cradle?'
- Ali Quli Qarai
Thereat she pointed to him. They said, ‘How can we speak to one who is yet a baby in the cradle?’