Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[His sons] answered: "O our father! Ask God to forgive us our sins, for, verily, we were sinners."
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'Our father, ask forgiveness of our crimes for us; for certainly we have been sinful.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said: "O our father! ask for us forgiveness for our sins, for we were truly at fault."
Arabic
قَالُوا۟ یَـٰۤأَبَانَا ٱسۡتَغۡفِرۡ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَاۤ إِنَّا كُنَّا خَـٰطِءِینَ ٩٧
Transliteration (2021)
qālū yāabānā is'taghfir lanā dhunūbanā innā kunnā khāṭiīn