19. Surah Maryam, Verse 92
وَمَا يَنْبَغ۪ي لِلرَّحْمٰنِ اَنْ يَتَّخِذَ وَلَداًۜ
Wama yanbaghee lirrahmanian yattakhitha walada
It is not fitting for the All-Merciful to have a son.
- Progressive Muslims
And what need does the Almighty have to take a son
- Shabbir Ahmed
It is not befitting for the Majesty of the Beneficent that He should choose a son.
- Sam Gerrans
When it behoves not the Almighty to take a son;
- The Monotheist Group
And what need does the Almighty have to take a son?
- Edip-Layth
What need does the Gracious have to take a son?
- Aisha Bewley
It is not fitting for the All-Merciful to have a son.
- Rashad Khalifa
It is not befitting the Most Gracious that He should beget a son.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
When it does not behove the Merciful to have a son.
- Sahih International
And it is not appropriate for the Most Merciful that He should take a son.
- Muhammad Asad
although it is inconceivable that the Most Gracious should take unto Himself a son!
- Marmaduke Pickthall
When it is not meet for (the Majesty of) the Beneficent that He should choose a son.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
when it is absolutely unbecoming nor is it consonant with His Supreme Majesty that He should take up, adopt or beget a son,
- Bijan Moeinian
It is beneath the dignity of the Most Gracious to beget a son.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
But it is not suitable for (the Majesty of) the Most Gracious (Allâh) that He should beget a son (or offspring or children).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
For it is not consonant with the majesty of (Allah) Most Gracious that He should beget a son.
- Mustafa Khattab
It does not befit ˹the majesty of˺ the Most Compassionate to have children.
- Taqi Usmani
while it does not behove the All-Merciful to have a son.
- Abdul Haleem
It does not befit the Lord of Mercy [to have offspring]:
- Arthur John Arberry
and it behoves not the All-merciful to take a son.
- E. Henry Palmer
but it, becomes not the Merciful to take to Himself a son!
- Hamid S. Aziz
That you attribute to the Beneficent a son,
- Mahmoud Ghali
And in no way does it behoove The All-Merciful to take to Him a child.
- George Sale
whereas it becometh not God to beget children.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
For it is not befitting for the Majesty of (Allah) the Most Gracious that He should father a son.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
`Whereas it does not behove the Most Gracious (God) that He should take to Himself a son. '
- Ali Quli Qarai
It does not behoove the All-beneficent to take a son.