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Surah 18. Al-Kahf, Ayah 97

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فَمَا ٱسْطَـٰعُوٓا۟ أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَـٰعُوا۟ لَهُۥ نَقْبًا Qur’an Al-Kahf (18:97)

Fama istaAAoo an yathharoohu wama istataAAoo lahu naqban

And thus [the rampart was built, and] their enemies⁹⁸ were unable to scale it, and neither were they able to pierce it.

- Mohammad Asad

This became such a barrier that Gog and Magog could not scale it or to dig through it.

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

And so the enemies could neither scale nor tunnel through it.

- Mustafa Khattab

And (Gog and Magog) were not able to surmount, nor could they pierce (it).

- Marmaduke Pickthall

Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it. ²⁴⁴³

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali