سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٥٢
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَٰكِفُونَ ٥٢
idh qāla li-abīhi waqawmihi mā hādhihi l-tamāthīlu allatī antum lahā ʿākifūna
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"
Verse 52 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:52), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 326 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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When he said to his father Azar and his people, “What are these idols that you have made with your own hands, and which you constantly worship?”
When he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are so devoted?”
When he said to his father and his people: "What are these images, to which you are devoted?"
When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion?
Behold! he said to his father and his people, "What are these images, to which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?"
When he said to his father and his people: What are these images to whose worship you cleave?
As he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are consecrating (yourselves)?"
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ
When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ
[And] when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?
