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Quran 90:12

Surah Al-Balad, Verse 12

Juz 30 · Page 594 · Ruku 532 · Meccan

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ

Word by word

وَمَآ wamā And what أَدْرَىٰكَ adrāka can make you know مَا mā what ٱلْعَقَبَةُ l-ʿaqabatu the steep path (is)

Transliteration

Wama adraka maalAAaqaba

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Ascent is! -

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?-

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقال قتادة "وما أدراك ما العقبة".

ثم أخبر تعالى عن اقتحامها.

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.