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إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ ٧٠
idh qāla li-abīhi waqawmihi mā taʿbudūna
When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"
Verse 70 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:70), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 370 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 do you worship instead of Allah?”
when he said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
When he said to his father and his people: "What do you worship?"
When he said unto his father and his folk: What worship ye?
Behold, he said to his father and his people: "What worship ye?"
When he said to his father and his people: What do you worship?
As he said to his father and his people, "What do 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 مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ
[And] when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?
