28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 64
وَق۪يلَ ادْعُوا شُرَكَٓاءَكُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَج۪يبُوا لَهُمْ وَرَاَوُا الْعَذَابَۚ لَوْ اَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَهْتَدُونَ
Waqeela odAAoo shurakaakumfadaAAawhum falam yastajeeboo lahum waraawoo alAAathabalaw annahum kanoo yahtadoon
They will be told, ‘Call on your partner-gods!’ They will call on them but they will not respond to them. They will see the punishment. Oh if only they had been guided!
- Progressive Muslims
And it will be said: "Call upon your partners, " but they will not respond to them. And they will see the retribution. If only they were guided!
- Shabbir Ahmed
And it will be said, "Call upon all your 'partners'" - but the 'partners' will not answer them. Whereupon they will see the suffering - Ah, if they had allowed themselves to be guided!
- Sam Gerrans
And it will be said: “Call your partners!” And they will call them, but they will not answer them; and they will see the punishment — had they but been guided!
- The Monotheist Group
And it will be said: "Call upon your partners," but they will not respond to them. And they will see the retribution. If only they were guided!
- Edip-Layth
It will be said, "Call upon your partners," but they will not respond to them. They will see the retribution. If only they were guided!
- Aisha Bewley
They will be told, ‘Call on your partner-gods!’ They will call on them but they will not respond to them. They will see the punishment. Oh if only they had been guided!
- Rashad Khalifa
It will be said, "Call upon your idols (to help you)." They will call upon them, but they will not respond. They will suffer the retribution, and wish that they were guided!
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
(The sinners) will be told: "Invoke your partners. " They will call on them, but they will not answer; and they will see the torment (and wish) if only they had come to guidance.
- Sahih International
And it will be said, "Invoke your 'partners' " and they will invoke them; but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. If only they had followed guidance!
- Muhammad Asad
And [they] will be told: "Call [now] unto those [beings or powers] to whom you were wont to ascribe a share in God’s divinity!" and they will call unto them [for help], but those [fake objects of worship] will not respond to them: whereupon they will see the suffering [that awaits them - the suffering which could have been avoided] if only they had allowed themselves to be guided!
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And it will be said: Cry unto your (so-called) partners (of Allah). And they will cry unto them, and they will give no answer unto them, and they will see the Doom. Ah, if they had but been guided!
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And they -the followers- shall be told: "Call to your predominant partners, and they will, but no answer shall they receive therefrom and they shall all wish they had pursued the path of righteousness, the path of Allah.
- Bijan Moeinian
Then it will be said : "Now call upon those whom you literally worshipped. " The idol worshippers would call their idols but will get no response; then they will face their punishment. If they had only followed My guidance.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And it will be said (to them): "Call upon your (so-called) partners (of Allâh)", and they will call upon them, but they will give no answer to them, and they will see the torment. (They will then wish) if only they had been guided!
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
It will be said (to them): "Call upon your 'partners' (for help)": they will call upon them, but they will not listen to them; and they will see the Penalty (before them); (how they will wish) 'if only they had been open to guidance!'
- Mustafa Khattab
It will be said ˹to the disbelievers˺, "Call upon your associate-gods ˹for help˺." So they will call them, but will receive no response. And they will face the punishment, wishing they had been ˹rightly˺ guided!
- Taqi Usmani
And it will be said, "Call those whom you held as co-gods." So they will call them, but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. Would that they had taken the right path!
- Abdul Haleem
It will then be said to them, ‘Now call those you worshipped as partners,’ and they will call them but receive no answer. They will see the suffering and wish they had followed guidance.
- Arthur John Arberry
It shall be said, 'Call you now upon your associates!' And they will call upon them, but they shall not answer them, and they shall see the chastisement-ah, if they had been guided!
- E. Henry Palmer
And it will be said, 'Call upon your partners;' and they will call upon them, but they will not answer them, and they shall see the torment; would that they had been guided.
- Hamid S. Aziz
And those concerning whom the Word will have come true shall say, "Our Lord! These are those whom we have seduced away; we seduced them as we were seduced ourselves: but we declare our innocence before Thee - they did not worship us. "
- Mahmoud Ghali
And it will be said, "Invoke your associates!" So they will invoke them, yet they will not respond to them, and they will see the torment. If (only) they had been (ready to be) guided!
- George Sale
And it shall be said unto the idolaters, call now upon those whom ye associated with God: And they shall call upon them, but they shall not answer them; and they shall see the punishment prepared for them, and shall wish that they had submitted to be directed.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And it will be said (to them): "Call to your 'partners' (for help):" They will call to them, but they will not listen to them; And they will see the penalty (before them); (They will wish:) "Only if they were open to guidance!"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
It will be said (to them), `Call on your (so called) associated partners (with God). ' So they will call on them but they will give them no answer. And they will (actually) see the punishment. (How good it would have been) if they had followed the right path!
- Ali Quli Qarai
It will be said, ‘Invoke your partners!’ So they will invoke them, but they will not respond to them, and they will sight the punishment, wishing they had followed guidance.