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Quran 18:68

Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 68

Juz 15 · Page 301 · Ruku 260 · Meccan

وَكَيْفَ تَصْبِرُ عَلَىٰ مَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِۦ خُبْرًا

Word by word

وَكَيْفَ wakayfa And how can تَصْبِرُ taṣbiru you have patience عَلَىٰ ʿalā for مَا mā what لَمْ lam not تُحِطْ tuḥiṭ you encompass بِهِۦ bihi of it خُبْرًۭا khub'ran any knowledge

Transliteration

Wakayfa tasbiru AAala malam tuhit bihi khubra

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

How canst thou bear with that whereof thou canst not compass any knowledge?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy understanding is not complete?"

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( وكيف تصبر على ما لم تحط به خبرا ) فأنا أعرف أنك ستنكر علي ما أنت معذور فيه ، ولكن ما اطلعت على حكمته ومصلحته الباطنة التي اطلعت أنا عليها دونك .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.