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Qur’an 90:11 Al-Balad, verse 11

فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah: Al-Balad (90)
Verse: 11 of 20
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 594

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
فَلَا	falā	But not
ٱقْتَحَمَ	iq'taḥama	he has attempted	ق ح م
ٱلْعَقَبَةَ	l-ʿaqabata	the steep path	ع ق ب

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 90:11 in Al-Balad.

90:9وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِAnd a tongue and two lips?
90:10وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِAnd have shown him the two ways?
90:12وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُAnd what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
90:13فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍIt is the freeing of a slave

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