Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
He answered: "It is only to God that I complain of my deep grief and my sorrow: for I know, from God, something that you do not know
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'I make complaint of my anguish and my sorrow unto God; I know from God that you know not
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He said: "I only complain of my distraction and anguish to Allah, and I know from Allah that which ye know not..
Arabic
قَالَ إِنَّمَاۤ أَشۡكُوا۟ بَثِّی وَحُزۡنِیۤ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَأَعۡلَمُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ ٨٦
Transliteration (2021)
qāla innamā ashkū bathī waḥuz'nī ilā l-lahi wa-aʿlamu mina l-lahi mā lā taʿlamūn