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Muhammad Asad
What is amiss with you that you do not speak?”
Arthur John Arberry
What ails you, that you speak not?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"What is the matter with you that ye speak not (intelligently)?"
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Transliteration-2
mā lakum lā tanṭiqūn
Word by Word (2021)
What (is) for you not you speak?"
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
What is amiss with you that you do not speak?”
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
What aileth you that ye speak not
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"What is the matter with you that ye speak not (intelligently)?"
Mustafa Khattab 2018
What is wrong with you that you cannot speak?”
Safi Kaskas 2025
What is wrong with you that you do not speak?"
Wahiduddin Khan
What is the matter with you that you do not speak
Shakir
What is the matter with you that you do not speak
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Why speak you not for yourselves?
T.B.Irving
What is wrong with you that you don´t utter a word?"
Abdul Hye
What is the matter with you that you don’t speak?”
Saeed Malik
What is the matter with you that you do not articulate?
The Study Quran
What ails you that you speak not?
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
What is wrong with you that you do not speak?"
Talal Itani (2012)
What is it with you, that you do not speak?'
Dr. Kamal Omar
What (is the matter) with you: you do not speak?”
M. Farook Malik
What is the matter with you that you don’t even speak?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
How is it with you that you do not pronounce (a word
Muhammad Sarwar
Why do you not speak?"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
What is wrong with you that you do not speak?
Shabbir Ahmed
What ails you that you speak not?"
Dr. Munir Munshey
"What is wrong? You don´t even talk?"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
"What is the matter with you that you do not speak (and make sense)?"
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
What is [wrong] with you that you do not speak?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
What is the matter, do you not speak?
Abdel Haleem
‘Do you not eat? Why do you not speak?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
What aileth ye that ye speak not
Ahmed Ali
What is wrong with you that you do not speak?"
Aisha Bewley
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?´
Ali Ãœnal
"What is the matter with you that you do not speak?"
Ali Quli Qara'i
Why do you not speak?’
Hamid S. Aziz
"What is the matter with you that you do not speak?"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
What is with you, why do you not speak?”
Bilal Muhammad 2018
“What is the matter with you that you do not speak?
Musharraf Hussain
Why don’t you speak?”
Maududi
What is the matter with you, why do you not speak?"
Mohammad Shafi
"What is the matter with you that you do not speak?"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
What happened to you that you speak not?
Rashad Khalifa
"Why do you not speak?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
What is the matter with you, that you do not speak?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
What is the matter with you that you speak not
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
Why for you, you do not speak
Bijan Moeinian
Then he asked: “How come you do not talk?”
Faridul Haque
“What is the matter with you, that you do not say anything?”
Sher Ali
`What is the matter with you that you speak not?
Edip Yuksel
"What is the matter, you do not speak?"
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?
Amatul Rahman Omar
`What is wrong with you that you do not even speak?
Hilali - Khan
"What is the matter with you that you speak not?"
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
What ails you, that you speak not?
George Sale
What aileth you that ye speak not
Edward Henry Palmer
What ails you that ye will not speak?
John Medows Rodwell
What aileth you that ye do not speak?"
N J Dawood 2014
Why do you not speak?‘
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
"Why do you (Maa Lakum') not (Laa) speak (Tantiquun)?"
Fode Drame
What is amiss with you? Will you not speak?”
MunirMezyed2023
What is wrong with you that you don’t speak ?”
Mustaqim
What is the matter with you that you don´t speak?
Linda "iLham" Barto
“What is wrong with you that you do not speak?”
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
What is it with youpl? Do you not speak?”
Irving/Hegab
What is wrong with you that you don’t utter a word?"
Samy Mahdy
What is the matter with you, not speaking?”
Qarai
Why do you not speak?’
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?'
Ahmed Hulusi
“Why won’t you speak?”
Mubarakpuri
"What is the matter with you that you speak not"
A. S. Mohamed
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?"
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?
[Al-Muntakhab]
"Are you mute" he asked "what ails you that you do not talk nor do you say something to the purpose!"
Mir Aneesuddin
What is (wrong) with you that you do not speak?”
The Wise Quran Project
What ails you, you do not speak?'
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
"What is the matter with you that ye speak not (intelligently)?"
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
"What is the matter, you do not speak?
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
"What is the matter, you do not speak"
OLD Word by Word
What (is) for you not you speak?
Transliteration
Ma lakum la tantiqoona