The Quran

سورة البَلَد

Surah Al-Balad 90:12

The City · Verse 12 of 20

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And what should make you know what the uphill path of steep and difficult ascent is?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

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

Ahmed Ali

How will you comprehend what the Steep ascent is? --

12 more translations

Ali Unal

What enables you to perceive what the ascent is?

Daryabadi

And what shall make thee understand that which the steep is?

Faridul Haque

And what have you understood, what the valley is!

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And what will make thee comprehend what the uphill road is?

Maulvi Sher Ali

And what should make thee know what the steep ascent is?

Muhammad Asad

And what could make thee conceive what it is, that steep uphill road?

Muhammad Musin Khan

And what will make you know the path that is steep?

Muhammad Pickthall

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

Muhammad Sarwar

Would that you knew what Aqaba is!

Muhammed ali Shakir

And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?

Rashad Khalifa

Which one is the difficult path?

Shabbir Ahmed

Ah, what will convey to you what that Ascent is!