الله اعلم

Arabic

Phrase

اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَم‎ • (allāhu ʾaʿlam)

  1. God knows best; God only knows; a traditional expression used to express uncertainty about a question, or doubt about the correctness of a piece of information
    ‏قِيلَ إِنَّ عَدَدَهُمْ كَانَ عِشْرِينَ رَجُلًا وَقِيلَ خَمْسَينَ وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ.‎‎
    Qīla ʾinna ʿadadahum kāna ʿišrīna rajulan wa-qīla ḵamsīna wa-llāhu ʾaʿlam[u].
    It has been said that their number was twenty men, and it has been said fifty, but God knows best.

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