Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
we would certainly be true servants of God.”
Arthur John Arberry
then were we God's sincere servants.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"We should certainly have been Servants of Allah, sincere (and devoted)!"
Arabic
لَكُنَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلۡمُخۡلَصِینَ ١٦٩
Transliteration (2021)
lakunnā ʿibāda l-lahi l-mukh'laṣīn