Quran 43 : 45

And ask (those) whom We sent from before you of Our Messengers; did We make from besides the Most Gracious gods to be worshipped?
وَسْـَٔلْ
Wasal
مَنْ
Man
أَرْسَلْنَا
Aarsalnā
مِن
Min
قَبْلِكَ
Qablika
مِن
Min
رُّسُلِنَآ
Rrusulinaa
أَجَعَلْنَا
Aajaʿalnā
مِن
Min
دُونِ
Dūni
ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ
Arraḥmaāni
ءَالِهَةً
ʾĀlihahan
يُعْبَدُونَ
Yuʿbadūna
Musharraf Hussain
And ask Our messengers We sent before you: did We ever allow gods beside Allah to be worshipped
Mustaqim
And ask the messengers whom We sent before you, did We allow gods besides the Merciful to be served?
Ahmed Ali
Inquire of apostles We had sent before you if We appointed gods to be worshipped other than Ar-Rahman
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Ask Our messengers whom We sent before you whether We had appointed gods to be worshipped besides RaHman
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
And ask ones whom We sent before thee of Our Messengers: Made We gods other than the Merciful to be worshiped?
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Ask Our Messengers whom We sent before you if We have ever made gods, other than the Merciful, to be worshipped
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Ask the messengers We sent before you: “Did We ever appoint gods to be worshiped other than the Most Merciful?”
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And ask thou Our apostles whom We sent before thee: appointed We gods, beside the Compassionate, to be worshipped
N J Dawood 2014
Ask those of Our apostles whom We sent before you if We ever appointed gods besides the Merciful to be worshipped
Arthur John Arberry
Ask those of Our Messengers We sent before thee: Have We appointed, apart from the All-merciful, gods to be served
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And ask the Messengers We sent before you whether We made any gods to be worshipped instead of the Most Kind (Lord)
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
And ask those We sent before you of Our messengers; have We made besides the Most Merciful deities to be worshipped
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: "Did We ever appoint gods besides the Almighty to be served?
Ali Quli Qara'i
Ask those of Our apostles We have sent before you: Did We set up any gods besides the All-beneficent to be worshipped
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And ask the ones of Our Messengers We sent before you. Have We made, apart from The All-Merciful, gods to be worshiped
Safi Kaskas
Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you; did We ever appoint any deities besides the Merciful to be worshipped?
Linda "iLham" Barto
Question Our messengers that We sent before you. Did We appoint any gods other than the Most Gracious to be worshiped?
Talal Itani (2012)
Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you: 'Did We appoint gods besides the Most Gracious to be worshiped?'
Hamid S. Aziz
And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent
Wahiduddin Khan
Ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you, Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent One
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent
The Wise Quran
And ask those whom We have sent before you amongst Our messengers: Did We make gods beside the Merciful for them to serve?
Abdel Haleem
Ask the prophets We sent before you: ‘Did We ever appoint any gods to be worshipped besides the Lord of Mercy?’
Aisha Bewley
Ask those We sent before you as Our Messengers: Have We ever designated any gods to be worshipped besides the All-Merciful?
Shabbir Ahmed
Check the Messengers (their Message) We sent before you. Did We ever appoint gods to be worshiped other than the Beneficent
George Sale
And ask our apostles whom We have sent before thee, whether We have appointed gods for them to worship, besides the Merciful
Maududi
Ask all Our Messengers whom We sent before you whether We had appointed any deities beside the Merciful One to be worshipped
MunirMezyed2023
And ask those Messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshiped beside the True Merciful (God)?
The Study Quran
Ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee, “Have We appointed gods to be worshipped apart from the Compassionate?
Edward Henry Palmer
And ask those whom we have sent before thee amongst the prophets, 'Did we make gods beside the Merciful One for them to serve?
Mohammad Shafi
And ask our Messengers whom We sent before you, "Did We appoint any deities, other than the Gracious One, to be worshipped
Shakir
And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent Allah
Sher Ali
And ask those of Our Messengers whom WE sent before thee, `Did WE appoint any deities beside the Gracious God, to be worshiped?
Bakhtiari Nejad
And ask (followers of) Our messengers whom We sent before you: “Did We appoint any gods to be served other than the beneficent?”
Bijan Moeinian
Refer to the previous Prophet’s teachings: Did anyone of them teach that an entity apart from the Lord should be worshipped
Samy Mahdy
And ask whom We sent before you among Our messengers; have We set up without Al-Rahman (The Widely merciful) gods to be worshiped?
Muhammad Sarwar
You can ask Our Messengers whom We sent before you if We had commanded them to worship other gods besides the Beneficent God?"
John Medows Rodwell
And ask our Sent Ones whom we have sent before thee, "Appointed we gods beside the God of Mercy whom they should worship?"
Munir Mezyed
Ask those of Our ‘Messengers’ whom We sent before you. Did We ever appoint gods to be worshiped beside the Most Beneficent ( God)?
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
And ask those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you, 'Did We appoint some other gods besides the All-Affectionate to be worshipped'?
Rashad Khalifa
Check the messengers we sent before you: "Have we ever appointed any other gods - beside the Most Gracious - to be worshiped?"
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And question thou our messengers whom We sent before thee; did We appoint any deities other than (Allah) Most Gracious, to be worshipped
Corpus.Quran
And ask (those) whom We sent before you before you of Our Messengers did We make besides besides the Most Gracious gods to be worshipped
Irving/Hegab
Question any of Our messengers We have sent before you: "Did We set up any [other] gods they should serve instead of the Mercy-giving?"
Faridul Haque
And ask them - did any of the Noble Messengers We sent before you, appoint any other gods except the Most Gracious, whom they used to worship
Amatul Rahman Omar
And ask those of Our Messenger whom We sent before you whether We (ever) appointed any deities to be worshipped apart from the Most Gracious (God)
Bilal Muhammad 2018
And question those to whom we sent our messengers before you, did We appoint any deities other than God, the Merciful Benefactor, to be worshipped
Ahmed Hulusi
And ask those We disclosed before you among Our Rasuls (study the knowledge that was given to them)! Have We formed gods to be served besides Rahman?
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
And ask/question whom We sent from before you from Our messengers, did We make/create from other than the merciful gods (that) they are being worshipped
T.B.Irving
Question any of Our messengers We have sent before you: "Did We set up any [other] gods they should serve instead of the Mercy-giving?"
Ali Ünal
And ask (their true followers about) those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever enable deities to be worshipped apart from the All-Merciful
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And you (O Prophet) question Our messengers whom We sent before you; Did We appoint any gods other than (Allah) the Most Gracious (Rahman), to be worshipped
Mir Aneesuddin
And ask those of the messengers whom We sent before you, “Did We appoint besides the Beneficent (Allah, any other) gods to be served ( worshipped ) by them?”
Dr. Munir Munshey
Ask the people, to whom We had sent Our messengers prior to you. Did We assign any god to be worshipped, other than the most Merciful (the ´Rehman´)
Dr. Kamal Omar
And ask whom We sent before you out of Our Messengers: ‘Did We appoint besides Ar-Rahman, aalihah (gods) that may be obeyed (by people)?’
Fode Drame
And inquire of those We have sent before you from among Our messengers, “Did We ever appoint other deities who were worshipped besides Ar-Rahman [The All-merciful]?”
Abdul Hye
And ask (O Muhammad) those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you: “Did We ever appoint any other one worthy of worship to be worshipped besides the Beneficent (Allah)?”
Hilali - Khan
And ask (O Muhammad SAW) those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you: "Did We ever appoint aliha (gods) to be worshipped besides the Most Beneficent (Allah)?"
Muhammad Asad
Yet [above all else,] ask any of Our apostles whom We sent forth before thy time whether We have ever allowed that deities other than the Most Gracious be worshipped
Mustafa Khattab 2018
Ask ˹the followers of˺ the messengers that We already sent before you if We ˹ever˺ appointed ˹other˺ gods to be worshipped besides the Most Compassionate.