Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
For [such as] these have taken to worshipping deities other than God, hoping that they would be a [source of] strength for them
Arthur John Arberry
And they have taken to them other gods apart from God, that they might be for them a might
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And they have taken (for worship) gods other than Allah, to give them power and glory
Arabic
وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةࣰ لِّیَكُونُوا۟ لَهُمۡ عِزࣰّا ٨١
Transliteration (2021)
wa-ittakhadhū min dūni l-lahi ālihatan liyakūnū lahum ʿizza