Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[And he marched on] till, when he reached [a place] between the two mountain-barriers, he found beneath them a people who could scarcely understand a word [of his language]
Arthur John Arberry
until, when he reached between the two barriers, he found this side of them a people scarcely able to understand speech
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word
Arabic
حَتَّىٰۤ إِذَا بَلَغَ بَیۡنَ ٱلسَّدَّیۡنِ وَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمَا قَوۡمࣰا لَّا یَكَادُونَ یَفۡقَهُونَ قَوۡلࣰا ٩٣
Transliteration (2021)
ḥattā idhā balagha bayna l-sadayni wajada min dūnihimā qawman lā yakādūna yafqahūna qawla