Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Said he: "Do you give me this glad tiding despite the fact that old age has overtaken me? Of what [strange thing], then, are you giving me a tiding!"
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'What, do you give me good tidings, though old age has smitten me? Of what do yo
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He said: "Do ye give me glad tidings that old age has seized me? Of what, then, is your good news?"
Arabic
قَالَ أَبَشَّرۡتُمُونِی عَلَىٰۤ أَن مَّسَّنِیَ ٱلۡكِبَرُ فَبِمَ تُبَشِّرُونَ ٥٤
Transliteration (2021)
qāla abashartumūnī ʿalā an massaniya l-kibaru fabima tubashirūn