27:20 wa tafaqqadaT Tayra faqaala maaliya laa aralhud'huda am kaana minal gaaibiyn

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
And he surveyed the birds - he therefore said, "What is to me that I do not see the Hudhud (hoopoe), or is he really absent?"

Yusuf Ali:
And he took a muster of the Birds; and he said: "Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees?

Pickthal:
And he sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent?