Skip to content

English

Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 68

سورة الكهف، الآية ٦٨

18:68 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 301 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 18:68

وَكَيْفَ تَصْبِرُ عَلَىٰ مَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِۦ خُبْرًا ۝٦٨

Transliteration

wakayfa taṣbiru ʿalā mā lam tuḥiṭ bihi khub'ran

Translation

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

Translation in another language

Choose a translation

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary Read in the surah

Verse 68 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:68), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 301 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

Listen to verse 68 of Surah Al-Kahf

79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.

All voices (79)

Tafsir of verse 68

Al-Mukhtasar

How will you bear patience over the actions that you see for which you do not know the proper reason, because you judge them according to the limit of your knowledge?!

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Kahf

Other translations of verse 68

How can you have patience with that which you have no knowledge about?”

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

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

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

And how can you have patience in that of which you have not got a comprehensive knowledge?

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

Verse 68 word by word

وَكَيْفَ wakayfa And how can ك ي ف
تَصْبِرُ taṣbiru you have patience ص ب ر
عَلَىٰ ʿalā for
مَا mā what
لَمْ lam not
تُحِطْ tuḥiṭ you encompass ح و ط
بِهِۦ bihi of it
خُبْرًا khub'ran any knowledge خ ب ر

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 3401

I said to Ibn `Abbas, "Nauf Al-Bukah claims that Moses, the companion of Al-Khadir was not Moses (the prophet) of the children of Israel, but some other Moses." Ibn `Abbas said, "Allah's enemy (i.e. Nauf) has told a lie. Ubai bin Ka`b told us that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'Once Moses stood up and…

أَنَّ مُوسَى قَامَ خَطِيبًا فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَسُئِلَ أَىُّ النَّاسِ أَعْلَمُ فَقَالَ أَنَا‏.‏ فَعَتَبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ إِذْ لَمْ يَرُدَّ الْعِلْمَ إِلَيْهِ‏.‏ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَلَى، لِي عَبْدٌ بِمَجْمَعِ…

Narrated by ’Ubayy ibn Ka‘b + 20 other versions

Go further