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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:90:12 –

And what can make you know what is ˹breaking through˺ the difficult pass?

And what will show you, ˹what will˺ make known to you, what the obstacle is?, that he is to surmount — intended to emphasise its enormity (this statement is a parenthetical one). He explains the way to surmount it by saying:

القرآن:٩٠:١٢ –

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

{وما أدراك} أعلمك {ما العقبة} التي يقتحمها تعظيما لشأنها، والجملة اعتراض وبين سبب جوازها بقوله:

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quran:83:19 –

And what can make you know what is 'illiyyun?

and what will tell you, ˹what will˺ inform you, what ‘Illiyyūn is?, what the book of ‘Illiyyūn is.

القرآن:٨٣:١٩ –

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ

{وما أدراك} أعلمك {ما عليون} ما كتاب عليين.