يَاصَاحِبَيِ السِّجْنِ ءَأَرْبَابٌ مُتَفَرِّقُونَ خَيْرٌ أَمِ اللَّهُ الْوَاحِدُ الْقَهَّارُ

Popular Translations

Muhammad Asad

"O my companions in imprisonment! Which is more reasonable: [belief in the existence of numerous divine] lords, each of them different from the other" -or [in] the One God, who holds absolute sway over all that exists

Arthur John Arberry

Say, which is better, my fellow-prisoners -- many gods at variance, or God the One, the Omnipotent

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

"O my two companions of the prison! (I ask you): are many lords differing among themselves better, or the One God, Supreme and Irresistible

Arabic

يَـٰصَـٰحِبَىِ ٱلسِّجْنِ ءَأَرْبَابٌۭ مُّتَفَرِّقُونَ خَيْرٌ أَمِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْوَٰحِدُ ٱلْقَهَّارُ ۝٣٩

Transliteration

yāṣāḥibayi l-sij'ni a-arbābun mutafarriqūna khayrun ami l-lahu l-wāḥidu l-qahār