Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and would say, “Shall we, then, give up our deities at the bidding of a mad poet?”
Arthur John Arberry
saying, 'What, shall we forsake our gods for a poet possessed?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And say: "What! shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"
Arabic
وَیَقُولُونَ أَىِٕنَّا لَتَارِكُوۤا۟ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرࣲ مَّجۡنُونِۭ ٣٦
Transliteration (2021)
wayaqūlūna a-innā latārikū ālihatinā lishāʿirin majnūni