Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[And] he said: "Am I to seek for you a deity other than God, although it is He who has favoured you above all other people?"
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'What, shall I seek a god for you other than God, who has preferred you above all beings?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He said: "Shall I seek for you a god other than the (true) Allah, when it is Allah Who hath endowed you with gifts above the nations?"
Arabic
قَالَ أَغَیۡرَ ٱللَّهِ أَبۡغِیكُمۡ إِلَـٰهࣰا وَهُوَ فَضَّلَكُمۡ عَلَى ٱلۡعَـٰلَمِینَ ١٤٠
Transliteration (2021)
qāla aghayra l-lahi abghīkum ilāhan wahuwa faḍḍalakum ʿalā l-ʿālamīn