Or do you invite them O Muhammad and present them with inducements

﴿أَمۡ تَسۡـَٔلُهُمۡ أَجۡرٗا فَهُم مِّن مَّغۡرَمٖ مُّثۡقَلُونَ ﴾
[القَلَم: 46]

Or do you invite them O Muhammad and present them with inducements to follow the path of truth and reality for something in return, and so they are charged with a debt that burdens them or brings them under such liability! The truth is that they are obstinate, not that they hold opinions but the opinions hold them

﴿أم تسألهم أجرا فهم من مغرم مثقلون﴾ [القَلَم: 46]

Dr Kamal Omar
Do you ask them a reward so that they from (such a) tax are those who are heavily burdened

Dr Laleh Bakhtiar
Or hast thou asked them for a compensation, so that they would be weighed down from something owed

Dr Munir Munshey
Or, do you ask them for a fee (or a reward)? Are they laboring under the burden (of such a demand)

Edward Henry Palmer
Or dost thou ask them a hire for it while they are burdened with debts

Farook Malik
Or have you, O Prophet, demanded a compensation from them, that they are overburdened with debt

George Sale
Dost thou ask them any reward for thy preaching? But they are laden with debts

Maududi
Or are you asking them for some compensation so that they feel burdened with debt