Text of verse 86:2
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ ٢
Transliteration
wamā adrāka mā l-ṭāriqu
Translation
And what can make you know what is the knocker?
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah At-Tariq, Verse 2
سورة الطارق، الآية ٢
Verse 2 of Surah At-Tariq (86:2), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 591 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 2
Al-Mukhtasar
O Messenger! What will tell you the status of this great star?!
Other translations of verse 2
and how do you know what the night comer is?
And what will make you to know what At-Târiq (night-comer) is?
- Ah, what will tell thee what the Morning Star is!
And what will explain to thee what the Night-Visitant is?-
And what will make you know what the comer by night is?
And what makes you realize what the Night Visitant is? (Or: "The Morning Star; literally: The Rapper).
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
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Al-Muddaththir 74:27
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
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Al-Mursalat 77:14
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Judgement?
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Al-Infitar 82:17
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
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Al-Mutaffifin 83:8
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
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Al-Mutaffifin 83:19
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ
And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?