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Quran 20:110

Surah Taa-Haa, Verse 110

Juz 16 · Page 319 · Ruku 275 · Meccan

يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِهِۦ عِلْمًا

Word by word

يَعْلَمُ yaʿlamu He knows مَا mā what بَيْنَ bayna (is) before them أَيْدِيهِمْ aydīhim (is) before them وَمَا wamā and what خَلْفَهُمْ khalfahum (is) behind them وَلَا walā while not يُحِيطُونَ yuḥīṭūna they encompass بِهِۦ bihi it عِلْمًۭا ʿil'man (in) knowledge

Transliteration

YaAAlamu ma bayna aydeehim wamakhalfahum wala yuheetoona bihi AAilma

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

He knoweth (all) that is before them and (all) that is behind them, while they cannot compass it in knowledge.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them: but they shall not compass it with their knowledge.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقوله : ( يعلم ما بين أيديهم وما خلفهم ) أي : يحيط علما بالخلائق كلهم ، ( ولا يحيطون به علما ) كقوله : ( ولا يحيطون بشيء من علمه إلا بما شاء ) [ البقرة : 255 ] .

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.