Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and, if you pray to them for guidance, do not respond to you? As far as you are concerned, it is all one whether you invoke them or keep silent
Arthur John Arberry
If you call them to guidance they will not follow you; equal it is to you whether you call them, or whether you are silent
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
If ye call them to guidance, they will not obey: For you it is the same whether ye call them or ye hold your peace
Arabic
وَإِن تَدۡعُوهُمۡ إِلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰ لَا یَتَّبِعُوكُمۡۚ سَوَاۤءٌ عَلَیۡكُمۡ أَدَعَوۡتُمُوهُمۡ أَمۡ أَنتُمۡ صَـٰمِتُونَ ١٩٣
Transliteration (2021)
wa-in tadʿūhum ilā l-hudā lā yattabiʿūkum sawāon ʿalaykum adaʿawtumūhum am antum ṣāmitūn