سورة الصافات، الآية ٨٥
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ ٨٥
idh qāla li-abīhi waqawmihi mādhā taʿbudūna
[And] when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?
Verse 85 of Surah As-Saffat (37:85), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 449 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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When he said to his father and his idolatrous nation, rebuking them, “What do you worship instead of Allah?”
and said to his father and his people, “What are you worshiping?
When he said to his father and to his people: "What is it that which you worship?
When he said unto his father and his folk: What is it that ye worship?
Behold! he said to his father and to his people, "What is that which ye worship?
When he said to his father and his people: What is it that you worship?
As he said to his father and his people, "What is it that you worship?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَٰكِفُونَ
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ
When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
