Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity
Arthur John Arberry
And what should teach thee? Perchance he would cleanse him
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?
Arabic
وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُ يَزَّكَّىٰ
Arabic
وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ