Surah Adh-Dhaariyat · Ayah 18·Makkī

18

هُمْ ﴿١٨﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,

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Tafsīr

No commentary indexed for this ayah yet.

Verse DNA · this āyah at a glance

Vocabulary and recitation are counted from the morphology and the Uthmani marks; commentary reports whether an authored tafsīr entry reaches this āyah. A structural read, not a judgement — a denser strip is not a weightier verse.

Vocabulary · 2 roots in 2 of 3 words

Recitation · 6 points across 4 rule families

  • Lām qamariyyah1
  • Madd ṭabīʿī2
  • Light rāʾ2
  • Iẓhār shafawī1

Commentary

No tafsīr entry reaches this āyah yet — the interpretive layer covers a pilot, not the whole Book.

Shape

3 words · 19 letters · āyah 18 of 60

once in the Qurʾān2–10×11–50×51–300×300+×

Similar verses by meaning

Ranked by semantic similarity over translation embeddings — a model’s proxy for meaning, not a claim about it, and not tafsīr. Verses may be kin in theme while differing entirely in wording.

  • Quran 68:20 · Al-Qalamclose

    فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ

    And it became as though reaped.

  • Quran 32:16 · As-Sajdaclose

    تَتَجَافَىٰ جُنُوبُهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْمَضَاجِعِ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَٰهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ

    They arise from [their] beds; they supplicate their Lord in fear and aspiration, and from what We have provided them, they spend.

  • Quran 15:83 · Al-Hijrclose

    فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ مُصْبِحِينَ

    But the shriek seized them at early morning.

  • Quran 15:84 · Al-Hijrclose

    فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

    So nothing availed them [from] what they used to earn.

  • Quran 18:77 · Al-Kahfclose

    فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا۟ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا

    So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to…

  • Quran 70:25 · Al-Ma'aarijclose

    لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ

    For the petitioner and the deprived -

Verses built from the same roots

Ranked by shared vocabulary (idf-cosine over each verse’s root-set). Shared words are a fact about form — they do not by themselves mean two verses are about the same thing.

  • Aal-i-Imraan 3:172 shared roots

    ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ وَٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ وَٱلْقَٰنِتِينَ وَٱلْمُنفِقِينَ وَٱلْمُسْتَغْفِرِينَ بِٱلْأَسْحَارِ

    س-ح-رغ-ف-ر

  • Taa-Haa 20:732 shared roots

    إِنَّآ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّنَا لِيَغْفِرَ لَنَا خَطَٰيَٰنَا وَمَآ أَكْرَهْتَنَا عَلَيْهِ مِنَ ٱلسِّحْرِ وَٱللَّهُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

    س-ح-رغ-ف-ر

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 51:18?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 51:18 include Quran 68:20 (Surah Al-Qalam), Quran 32:16 (Surah As-Sajda), Quran 15:83 (Surah Al-Hijr), and Quran 15:84 (Surah Al-Hijr). For example, 68:20 reads: “And it became as though reaped.” These are ranked by comparing translations of every verse in the Qurʾān, so they are a measure of similar wording and theme — not a tafsīr ruling.

What does Quran 51:18 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 51:18 (Surah Adh-Dhaariyat, The Winnowing Winds) reads: “And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,”

Which surah is verse 51:18 in?

Quran 51:18 is āyah 18 of Surah Adh-Dhaariyat (The Winnowing Winds), chapter 51 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 60 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 51:18?

Tartīl presents Quran 51:18 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.