سورة عبس، الآية ٣
وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ ٣
wamā yud'rīka laʿallahu yazzakkā
But what would make you perceive, [O Muḥammad], that perhaps he might be purified1854
[1854] As a result of what he learns from you.
Verse 3 of Surah ’Abasa (80:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 585 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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O Messenger! What do you know, maybe this blind man may be purified of his sins?
How would you know? Perhaps he might be purified2,
[2] Through the knowledge he learns from you.
And how can you know that he might become pure (from sins)?
What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)
But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?-
And what would make you know that he would purify himself,
And what makes you (The prophet) realize whether he (The blind man (Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum) would possibly (try) to cleanse himself.
