Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[If so,] I will punish him most severely or will kill him unless he bring me a convincing excuse!”
Arthur John Arberry
Assuredly I will chastise him with a terrible chastisement, or I will slaughter him, or he bring me a clear authority.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"I will certainly punish him with a severe penalty, or execute him, unless he bring me a clear reason (for absence)."
Arabic
لَأُعَذِّبَنَّهُۥ عَذَابࣰا شَدِیدًا أَوۡ لَأَا۟ذۡبَحَنَّهُۥۤ أَوۡ لَیَأۡتِیَنِّی بِسُلۡطَـٰنࣲ مُّبِینࣲ ٢١
Transliteration (2021)
la-uʿadhibannahu ʿadhāban shadīdan aw laādh'baḥannahu aw layatiyannī bisul'ṭānin mubīni