Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
“What! [Am I to have a daughter -] one who is to be reared [only] for the sake of ornament?” and thereupon he finds himself torn by a vague inner conflict
Arthur John Arberry
What, one who is reared amid ornaments and, when the time of altercation comes, is not to be seen
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Is then one brought up among trinkets, and unable to give a clear account in a dispute (to be associated with Allah)
Arabic
أَوَ مَن یُنَشَّؤُا۟ فِی ٱلۡحِلۡیَةِ وَهُوَ فِی ٱلۡخِصَامِ غَیۡرُ مُبِینࣲ ١٨
Transliteration (2021)
awaman yunasha-u fī l-ḥil'yati wahuwa fī l-khiṣāmi ghayru mubīni