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Quran 80:3

Surah Abasa, Verse 3

Juz 30 · Page 585 · Ruku 522 · Meccan

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ

Word by word

وَمَا wamā But what يُدْرِيكَ yud'rīka would make you know لَعَلَّهُۥ laʿallahu that he might يَزَّكَّىٰٓ yazzakkā purify himself

Transliteration

Wama yudreeka laAAallahu yazzakka

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?-

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

أي يحصل له زكاة وطهارة في نفسه.

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.