Surah Al-A'raaf · Ayah 39·Makkī

39

فَمَا لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن بِمَا ﴿٣٩﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And the first of them will say to the last of them, "Then you had not any favor over us, so taste the punishment for what you used to earn."

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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 · 8 roots in 9 of 14 words

Recitation · 21 points across 5 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī12
  • Iẓhār shafawī4
  • Heavy rāʾ1
  • Ikhfāʾ3
  • Lām qamariyyah1

Commentary

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

Shape

14 words · 62 letters · āyah 39 of 206

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.

  • مَتَٰعٌ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا مَرْجِعُهُمْ ثُمَّ نُذِيقُهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلشَّدِيدَ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْفُرُونَ

    [For them is brief] enjoyment in this world; then to Us is their return; then We will make them taste the severe punishment because they used to disbelieve

  • يَوْمَ يَغْشَىٰهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِمْ وَيَقُولُ ذُوقُوا۟ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    On the Day the punishment will cover them from above them and from below their feet and it is said, "Taste [the result of] what you used to do."

  • وَقَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا هَٰذَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ

    They will say, "O woe to us! This is the Day of Recompense."

  • فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا

    "So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."

  • قُلْ نَعَمْ وَأَنتُمْ دَٰخِرُونَ

    Say, "Yes, and you will be [rendered] contemptible."

  • كَمَثَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ قَرِيبًا ذَاقُوا۟ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

    [Theirs is] like the example of those shortly before them: they tasted the bad consequence of their affair, and they will have a painful punishment.

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.

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 7:39?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 7:39 include Quran 10:70 (Surah Yunus), Quran 29:55 (Surah Al-Ankaboot), Quran 37:20 (Surah As-Saaffaat), and Quran 78:30 (Surah An-Naba). For example, 10:70 reads: “[For them is brief] enjoyment in this world; then to Us is their return; then We will make them taste the severe punishment because they used to disbelieve” 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 7:39 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 7:39 (Surah Al-A'raaf, The Heights) reads: “And the first of them will say to the last of them, "Then you had not any favor over us, so taste the punishment for what you used to earn."”

Which surah is verse 7:39 in?

Quran 7:39 is āyah 39 of Surah Al-A'raaf (The Heights), chapter 7 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 206 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 7:39?

Tartīl presents Quran 7:39 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.