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Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Muddaththir Verse 27

Al-Muddaththir [74]: 27 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

وَمَآ اَدْرٰىكَ مَا سَقَرُۗ (المدثر : ٧٤)

wamā
وَمَآ
And what
adrāka
أَدْرَىٰكَ
can make you know
مَا
what
saqaru
سَقَرُ
(is) Hell?

Transliteration:

Wa maaa adraaka maa saqar (QS. al-Muddathir:27)

English / Sahih Translation:

And what can make you know what is Saqar? (QS. Al-Muddaththir, ayah 27)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And what can let you know what Saqar is?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And what will make you realize what Hell is?

Ruwwad Translation Center

How do you know what Scorching Fire is?

A. J. Arberry

and what will teach thee what is Sakar?

Abdul Haleem

What will explain to you what the scorching Fire is?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is?

Abul Ala Maududi

And what do you know what Hell is?

Ahmed Ali

What do you think Hell-fire is?

Ahmed Raza Khan

And what have you understood, what hell is!

Ali Quli Qarai

And what will show you what is Saqar?

Ali Ünal

What enables you to perceive what that pit is?

Amatul Rahman Omar

How should you realize what the Hell- fire is?

English Literal

And what makes you know what Hell (is)?

Faridul Haque

And what have you understood, what hell is!

Hamid S. Aziz

And what will make you understand what the burning (Hell-fire) is?

Hilali & Khan

And what will make you know exactly what Hell-fire is?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And what will make thee realize what hell is?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And what will make you realize what hell is?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

- Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! -

Muhammad Sarwar

Would that you really knew what hell is!

Qaribullah & Darwish

What will let you know what the Scorching is like!

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And what will make you know (exactly) what Saqar is

Wahiduddin Khan

What could make you conceive what hell-fire is?

Talal Itani

But what will explain to you what Saqar is?

Tafsir jalalayn

And how would you know what is Saqar? -- this [interrogative] is intended to emphasise its enormity.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

I will cast him into Saqar.

meaning, `I will engulf him in it from all his sides.'

Then Allah says,

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سَقَرُ