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Muhammad Asad
They answered: “We found our forefathers worshipping them.”
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'We found our fathers serving them.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
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Transliteration-2
qālū wajadnā ābāanā lahā ʿābidīn
Word by Word (2021)
They said, "We found our forefathers of them worshippers."
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
They answered: “We found our forefathers worshipping them.”
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
They said: We found our fathers worshippers of them
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Mustafa Khattab 2018
They replied, “We found our forefathers worshipping them.”
Safi Kaskas 2025
They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.”
Wahiduddin Khan
They replied, We found our fathers worshipping them
Shakir
They said: We found our fathers worshipping them
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
They said: We found our fathers as ones who are worshippers of them.
T.B.Irving
They said: "We found our forefathers serving them."
Abdul Hye
They said: “We found our forefathers worshipping to them.”
Saeed Malik
They said, “We found our forefathers worshippers unto them.”
The Study Quran
They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
They said, "We found our fathers worshiping them."
Talal Itani (2012)
They said, 'We found our parents worshiping them.'
Dr. Kamal Omar
The people said: “We found our fathers (and ancestors) as worshippers to them.”
M. Farook Malik
They replied, "We found our forefathers worshipping them."
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
They said, "We found our fathers worshiping them."
Muhammad Sarwar
They replied, "We found our fathers worshipping them"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
They said, .We found our fathers worshipping them,
Shabbir Ahmed
They responded, "We found our ancestors worshipers of them."
Dr. Munir Munshey
They replied, "We found our forefathers praying to them."
Syed Vickar Ahamed
They said: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
They said, "We found our fathers worshippers of them."
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
They said: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Abdel Haleem
They replied, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
They said: we found our fathers the worshippers thereof
Ahmed Ali
They replied: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Aisha Bewley
they said, ´We found our fathers worshipping them.´
Ali Ãœnal
They said: "We have found our forefathers worshipping them."
Ali Quli Qara'i
They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’
Hamid S. Aziz
Said they, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
They said: “We found our fathers serving them.”
Bilal Muhammad 2018
They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.
Musharraf Hussain
They said, “Our forefathers were their worshippers.”
Maududi
They answered: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Mohammad Shafi
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
They said, 'we found our fathers worshipping them.
Rashad Khalifa
They said, "We found our parents worshiping them."
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
They replied: 'We found our fathers worshipping them.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
They said: We found our fathers worshipping them
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
They said: "We found our fathers to it worshipping."
Bijan Moeinian
They replied: “This is our cultural root! Our fathers were worshipping them.”
Faridul Haque
They said, "We found our forefathers worshipping them."
Sher Ali
They replied, `We found our fathers worshiping them.
Edip Yuksel
They said, "We found our fathers serving them."
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
They said: ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.
Amatul Rahman Omar
They said, `We found our fathers worshipping them.
Hilali - Khan
They said:"We found our fathers worshipping them."
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'We found our fathers serving them.
George Sale
They answered, we found our fathers worshipping them
Edward Henry Palmer
Said they, 'We found our fathers serving them.
John Medows Rodwell
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
N J Dawood 2014
They said: ‘They are the gods our fathers worshipped.‘
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
They said (Qaalu'), "We found (Wajad'naa) our fathers (Aabaa'a-naa) worshipping them (Ääbidiin La-haa)."
Fode Drame
They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.”
MunirMezyed2023
They said: ‘We found our fathers worshiping them’.
Mustaqim
They said: we found our fathers serving them.
Linda "iLham" Barto
They said, “We found our parents worshiping them.”
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
They said, “We found our forefathers worshiping them.”
Irving/Hegab
They said: "We found our forefathers worshiping them."
Samy Mahdy
They said, “We found our parents' worshipers for them.”
Qarai
They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
They answered: 'We found our forefathers worshipping them.'
Ahmed Hulusi
They said, “We saw our fathers worship them (so we are imitating them).”
Mubarakpuri
They said: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
A. S. Mohamed
they said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
They said: �We found our fathers worshipping them�
[Al-Muntakhab]
They said: "we found our fathers revering them and adoring them with appropriate acts and rites"
Mir Aneesuddin
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
The Wise Quran Project
They said, 'We found our forefathers for them servants.'
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
They said: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
They said: "We found our fathers worshipping them."
OLD Word by Word
They said, "We found our forefathers of them worshippers.
Transliteration
Qaloo wajadna abaana laha AAabideena