Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

“And how canst thou be patient with what thou hast not encompassed in knowledge?”

وَكَيْفَ تَصْبِرُ عَلٰى مَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِه۪ خُبْراً
Wakayfa tasbiru AAala malam tuhit bihi khubra
#wordmeaningroot
1wakayfaAnd how canكيف
2taṣbiruyou have patienceصبر
3ʿalāfor
4what
5lamnot
6tuḥiṭyou encompassحوط
7bihiof it
8khub'ranany knowledgeخبر
  • Aisha Bewley

    How indeed could you bear with patience something you have not encompassed in your knowledge?’

  • Progressive Muslims

    "And how can you be patient about that which you have not been given any news"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And how can you bear with that which you cannot comprehend?"

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    “And how canst thou be patient with what thou hast not encompassed in knowledge?”

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    "And how can you be patient about that which you have not been given any news?"

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    "How can you be patient about what you have not been given any news?"

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    "How can you stand that which you do not comprehend?"

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    "How can you bear that which is beyond your comprehension?"

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge?"

  • Muhammad Asad

    for how couldst thou be patient about something that thou canst not comprehend within the compass of (thy experience?"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    How canst thou bear with that whereof thou canst not compass any knowledge?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    For how can you patiently bear with something you cannot encompass in your knowledge?"

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    "And how could you", he added, "put up with something whose significance, import or intended purpose you do not know nor do you look at it with your inward sight!"

  • Bijan Moeinian

    After all, how can you be patient about something that you do not know anything about it?" (try to attend a lecture that you do not know nothing about the subject matter and see how patient you are. )

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    "And how can you have patience about a thing which you know not?"

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy understanding is not complete?"

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And how can you be patient with what is beyond your ˹realm of˺ knowledge?"

  • Taqi Usmani

    And how would you keep patient over something your comprehension cannot grasp?"

  • Abdul Haleem

    How could you be patient in matters beyond your knowledge?’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    And how shouldst thou bear patiently that thou hast never encompassed in thy knowledge?'

  • E. Henry Palmer

    How canst thou be patient in what thou comprehendest no knowledge of?'

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Said he, "Verily, you can never bear it.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And how should you (endure) patiently what you have not encompassed in your cognizance?"

  • George Sale

    For how canst thou patiently suffer those things, the knowledge whereof thou dost not comprehend?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    "And how can you have patience about things about which your understanding is not complete?"

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    `And how can you have patience about things the knowledge of which you do not comprehend. '

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    And how can you have patience about something you are not in the know of?’