Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and perhaps, too, our forebears of old?”
Arthur John Arberry
What, and our fathers, the ancients?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"(We) and our fathers of old?"
Arabic
أَوَ ءَابَاۤؤُنَا ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ ٤٨
Transliteration (2021)
awaābāunā l-awalūn