37. Surah As-Saffat, Verse 149
فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ اَلِرَبِّكَ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ الْبَنُونَۙ
Fastaftihim alirabbika albanatuwalahumu albanoon
Ask them for a fatwa: does your Lord have daughters while they themselves have sons?
- Progressive Muslims
So ask them: "Are the daughters for your Lord, while the sons are for them"
- Shabbir Ahmed
Now (O Prophet) ask them if your Lord has daughters whereas they have sons! (Do they wish to live with superstitions, such as that Jonah lived in the belly of a fish for forty days and then he got free only by reciting a verse, or that your Lord has offspring)?
- Sam Gerrans
And ask thou them: has thy Lord daughters and they sons?
- The Monotheist Group
So ask them: "Are the daughters for your Lord, while the sons are for them?"
- Edip-Layth
So ask them: "Are the daughters for your Lord, while the sons are for them?"
- Aisha Bewley
Ask them for a fatwa: does your Lord have daughters while they themselves have sons?
- Rashad Khalifa
Ask them if your Lord have daughters, while they have sons!
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Now ask them if their Lord has daughters, and they sons?
- Sahih International
So inquire of them, [O Muúammad], "Does your Lord have daughters while they have sons?
- Muhammad Asad
AND NOW ask them to enlighten thee: Has thy Sustainer daughters, whereas they would have [only] sons?
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Now ask them (O Muhammad): Hath thy Lord daughters whereas they have sons?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And now ask them -the infidels- O Muhammad and question the truth of their dictum: "Has Allah chosen as they irreverently alleged the females and left for them the males!"
- Bijan Moeinian
Ask the disbelievers: "How come you want to have only sons [and kill your daughter considering having them a matter of shame] and then you say that God has daughters?"
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Now ask them (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Are there (only) daughters for your Lord and sons for them?"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Now ask them their opinion: Is it that thy Lord has (only) daughters, and they have sons?-
- Mustafa Khattab
Ask them ˹O Prophet˺ if your Lord has daughters,[1] while the pagans ˹prefer to˺ have sons.
- Taqi Usmani
So ask them, "Does your Lord have daughters while they have sons?"
- Abdul Haleem
Now [Muhammad], ask the disbelievers: is it true that your Lord has daughters, while they choose sons for themselves?
- Arthur John Arberry
So ask them for a pronouncement -- Has thy Lord daughters, and they sons?
- E. Henry Palmer
Ask them, 'Has thy Lord daughters while they have sons?
- Hamid S. Aziz
Now ask them (O Muhammad) has your Lord daughters while they have sons?
- Mahmoud Ghali
So, ask them for a pronouncement, "Has your Lord daughters, and they have sons?
- George Sale
Inquire of the Meccans whether thy Lord hath daughters, and they sons?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Now ask them (the unbelievers) what they think: Is it that your Lord has (only) daughters, and they have sons?
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Now ask these (disbelievers) whether daughters are for your Lord (as they assert), and sons for themselves.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Ask them, are daughters to be for your Lord while sons are to be for them?