Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
They answered: "Thou hast always known that we have no use whatever for thy daughters; and, verily, well dost thou know what we want!"
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'Thou knowest we have no right to thy daughters, and thou well knowest what we desire.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said: "Well dost thou know we have no need of thy daughters: indeed thou knowest quite well what we want!"
Arabic
قَالُوا۟ لَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتَ مَا لَنَا فِی بَنَاتِكَ مِنۡ حَقࣲّ وَإِنَّكَ لَتَعۡلَمُ مَا نُرِیدُ ٧٩
Transliteration (2021)
qālū laqad ʿalim'ta mā lanā fī banātika min ḥaqqin wa-innaka lataʿlamu mā nurīd