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Muhammad Asad   
[But] how couldst thou tell anything about it
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
Wherein are you (concerned) with the Reminding of it
Safi Kaskas   
How can you possibly know that?

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Arabic   
فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَاهَا
Arabic   
فِيمَ أَنْتَ مِنْ ذِكْرَاهَا
www.quran.live   
fīma anta min dhik’rāhā
www.quran.live   
About ˹the hour˺ what do you mention of it
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more   
In what (are) you [of] (to) mention it?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
[But] how couldst thou tell anything about it
M. M. Pickthall   
Why (ask they)? What hast thou to tell thereof
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
But it is not for you to tell its time.
Safi Kaskas   
How can you possibly know that?
Wahiduddin Khan   
what have you to do with the mentioning of it
Shakir   
About what! You are one to remind of it
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
Then, what art thou about that thou remind of it?
T.B.Irving   
Why are you reminding us about it?"
Abdul Hye   
But you have no knowledge to say anything about it.
The Study Quran   
What hast thou to do with mentioning it
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
In what position are you to mention its date?
Talal Itani (2012)   
You have no knowledge of it
Dr. Kamal Omar   
In what (doubt) you are regarding (the) mention thereof
M. Farook Malik   
But it is not for you to know or tell its timing
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
Wherein are you (concerned) with the Reminding of it
Muhammad Sarwar   
(Muhammad), you do not know (when and how) it will come
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
In which capacity are you to tell this
Shabbir Ahmed   
Why? What do you have to tell them about it? (7:187), (33:63), (42:17)
Dr. Munir Munshey   
It is not for you to forecast the (actual) date (of its occurrence)
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
How are you (even included) in the announcement of its time
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
In what [position] are you that you should mention it
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)   
You have no knowledge of it.
Abdel Haleem   
saying, ‘When will it arrive?’, but how can you tell [them that]
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
Wherein art thou concerred with the declaration thereof
Ahmed Ali   
What do you have to do with explaining it
Aisha Bewley   
What are you doing mentioning it?
Ali Ünal   
But how could you have knowledge about its time
Ali Quli Qara'i   
considering your frequent mention of it?”
Hamid S. Aziz   
"What," ask they, "have you to say about it?"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
In what (basis) would you remember it (when you have no knowledge of it)?
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
Are you concerned with the declaration of it
Musharraf Hussain   
What can you tell them about that?
Maududi   
What concern do you have to speak about that
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
You have no knowledge of it.
Mohammad Shafi   
What have you to do with the mentioning of it [the time of the occurrence of the Hour]

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
But what you are to do with its mentioning?
Rashad Khalifa   
It is not you (Muhammad) who is destined to announce its time
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
But how are you to know
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
About which thou remindest
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
In what you are from mentioning/remembering it (what do you know about it or its time)
Bijan Moeinian   
… day that you are talking about will take place
Faridul Haque   
What concern do you have regarding its explanation? (You are not bound to tell them
Sher Ali   
Wherein art thou concerned with the talk of its coming
Edip Yuksel   
You have no knowledge of it.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
What should be your concern in talking about (its appointed time)
Amatul Rahman Omar   
Why (do they ask this question)? It is you who are its reminder (you being one of its signs)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
You have no knowledge to say anything about it

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
What art thou about, to mention it
George Sale   
By what means canst thou give any information of the same
Edward Henry Palmer   
Whereby canst thou mention it
John Medows Rodwell   
But what knowledge hast thou of it
N J Dawood (2014)   
But how are you to know

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
What do you have to do with declaring it?
Munir Mezyed   
About what! That is outside the scope of your knowledge.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
How could you know about it?
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
Why should you be concerned about it?
Samy Mahdy   
So, in what you are, of its reminder?
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
Why are you reminding us about it?"
Sayyid Qutb   
But why should you be concerned with its exact timing?
Ahmed Hulusi   
But who are you to have this knowledge?
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)   
Why are you mentioning it
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
But how could you satisfy their query when you yourself do not know
Mir Aneesuddin   
In what way are you to discuss it ?
The Wise Quran   
In what are you of its mention?

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof
OLD Literal Word for Word   
In what (are) you [of] (to) mention it
OLD Transliteration   
Feema anta min thikraha