Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

If He has daughters when you have sons:

اَمْ لَهُ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَـكُمُ الْبَنُونَۜ
Am lahu albanatu walakumu albanoon
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1amOr
2lahufor Him
3l-banātu(are) daughtersبني
4walakumuwhile for you
5l-banūna(are) sonsبني
  • Aisha Bewley

    Or does He have daughters whereas you have sons?

  • Progressive Muslims

    Or to Him belong the daughters, and to you belong the sons

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    (Such is their ignorance, yet their claims) What! He has daughters, whereas you would rather have only sons?

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    If He has daughters when you have sons:

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Or to Him belong the daughters, and to you belong the sons?

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Or to Him belong the daughters, and to you belong the sons?

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Does He have daughters, while you have sons?

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Has (God) daughters and they sons?

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    Or has He daughters while you have sons?

  • Muhammad Asad

    Or, He has daughters, whereas you yourselves would have sons?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Or does Allah have daughters whereas you have sons?

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Or is it that to Allah belong only the daughters whom they incorporate with Him, and to them belong only the sons?

  • Bijan Moeinian

    If they claim to hear from God, how come they assign daughters to God while they kill their own daughters as it is beneath their "dignity" to have nothing but son.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Or has He (Allâh) only daughters and you have sons?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Or does He have daughters ˹as you claim˺, while you ˹prefer to˺ have sons?

  • Taqi Usmani

    Is it that He has daughters and you have sons?

  • Abdul Haleem

    Does God have daughters while you have sons?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Or has He daughters, and they sons?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Has He daughters, while ye have sons?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Or has He daughters while you have sons?

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Or even has He the daughters, and you have the sons?

  • George Sale

    Hath God daughters, and have ye sons?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Or has He only daughters and you have sons?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (O disbelievers, as you believes,) does He have daughters while you have sons?

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Does He have daughters while you have sons?