قَالُوا۟ يَٰصَٰلِحُ قَدْ كُنتَ فِينَا مَرْجُوًّۭا قَبْلَ هَٰذَآ ۖ أَتَنْهَىٰنَآ أَن نَّعْبُدَ مَا يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَا وَإِنَّنَا لَفِى شَكٍّۢ مِّمَّا تَدْعُونَآ إِلَيْهِ مُرِيبٍۢ
How to read it
Qālū yāṣāliḥu qad' kunta fīnā mar'juwan qab'la hādhā . 'atan'hānā 'an nnaʻ'buda mā yaʻ'budu 'ābā'unā wa'innanā lafī shakkin mmimmā tad'ʻūnā 'ilay'hi murībin
They said: "O Salih! thou hast been of us! a centre of our hopes hitherto! dost thou (now) forbid us the worship of what our fathers worshipped? But we are really in suspicious (disquieting) doubt as to that to which thou invitest us."
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali

