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Qur’an 90:12 Al-Balad, verse 12

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ

And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?

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

Surah: Al-Balad (90)
Verse: 12 of 20
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 594

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
وَمَآ	wamā	And what
أَدْرَىٰكَ	adrāka	can make you know	د ر ي
مَا	mā	what
ٱلْعَقَبَةُ	l-ʿaqabatu	the steep path (is)	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 90:12 in Al-Balad.

90:10وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِAnd have shown him the two ways?
90:11فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَBut he has not broken through the difficult pass.
90:13فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍIt is the freeing of a slave
90:14أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢOr feeding on a day of severe hunger

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