The Quran

سورة الزّخرُف

Surah Al-Zukhruf 43:81

The Ornaments · Verse 81 of 89

قُلْ إِنْ كَانَ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ وَلَدٌ فَأَنَا أَوَّلُ الْعَابِدِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Say, `The Most Gracious (God) has no son and I am the foremost to bear witness to this fact.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Say: "If (Allah) Most Gracious had a son, I would be the first to worship.î

Ahmed Ali

Say: "If Ar-Rahman had a son I would have been the first of worshippers."

12 more translations

Ali Unal

Say: "If the All-Merciful had a child, I would be the first to worship."

Daryabadi

Say thou: had the Compassionate a son, shall be the first of his worshippers.

Faridul Haque

Proclaim (O dear Prophet Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him), “If supposedly, the Most Gracious had an offspring* - I would be the first to worship!” (*Which is impossible)

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Say: The Beneficent has no son; so I am the foremost of those who serve (God).

Maulvi Sher Ali

Say, `If the Gracious God had a son, I would have been the first of worshippers.'

Muhammad Asad

Say [O Prophet): "If the Most Gracious [truly) had a son, I would be the first to worship him!"

Muhammad Musin Khan

Say (O Muhammad SAW): "If the Most Beneficent (Allah) had a son (or children as you pretend), then I am the first of Allah's worshippers [who deny and refute this claim of yours (and the first to believe in Allah Alone and testify that He has no children)]."

Muhammad Pickthall

Say (O Muhammad): If the Beneficent One hath a son, then, I shall be first among the worshippers. (But there is no son).

Muhammad Sarwar

(Muhammad), say, "Had the Beneficent God really had a son, I would certainly have been the first one to worship him.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Say: If the Beneficent Allah has a son, I am the foremost of those who serve.

Rashad Khalifa

Proclaim: "If the Most Gracious did have a son, I would still be the foremost worshiper."

Shabbir Ahmed

Say (O Prophet), "The Beneficent One has no son. I am the foremost to serve Him alone."