Surah Al-A'raaf · Ayah 5·Makkī

5

فَمَا إِذْ إِلَّآ أَن إِنَّا ﴿٥﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And their declaration when Our punishment came to them was only that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers!"

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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 · 6 roots in 7 of 12 words

Recitation · 14 points across 4 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī9
  • Iẓhār shafawī2
  • Ikhfāʾ1
  • Ghunnah2

Commentary

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

Shape

12 words · 45 letters · āyah 5 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.

  • وَلَئِن مَّسَّتْهُمْ نَفْحَةٌ مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّكَ لَيَقُولُنَّ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ

    And if [as much as] a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, "O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers."

  • فَلَمَّا نَسُوا۟ مَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِهِۦٓ أَنجَيْنَا ٱلَّذِينَ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلسُّوٓءِ وَأَخَذْنَا ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ بِعَذَابٍۭ بَـِٔيسٍۭ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

    And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were…

  • وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    And We did not wrong them, but it was they who were the wrongdoers.

  • فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَٰوَمُونَ

    Then they approached one another, blaming each other.

  • فَرَجَعُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ فَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّكُمْ أَنتُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ

    So they returned to [blaming] themselves and said [to each other], "Indeed, you are the wrongdoers."

  • قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ

    They said, "O woe to us! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

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.

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:143 shared roots

    قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ

    ظ-ل-مك-و-نق-و-ل

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:762 shared roots

    وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    ظ-ل-مك-و-ن

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:383 shared roots

    حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَنَا قَالَ يَٰلَيْتَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ بُعْدَ ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ فَبِئْسَ ٱلْقَرِينُ

    ب-أ-سج-ي-أق-و-ل

  • Al-Hajj 22:132 shared roots

    يَدْعُوا۟ لَمَن ضَرُّهُۥٓ أَقْرَبُ مِن نَّفْعِهِۦ لَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَوْلَىٰ وَلَبِئْسَ ٱلْعَشِيرُ

    ب-أ-سد-ع-و

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:722 shared roots

    قَالَ هَلْ يَسْمَعُونَكُمْ إِذْ تَدْعُونَ

    د-ع-وق-و-ل

  • Al-Ghaafir 40:843 shared roots

    فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا۟ بَأْسَنَا قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِٱللَّهِ وَحْدَهُۥ وَكَفَرْنَا بِمَا كُنَّا بِهِۦ مُشْرِكِينَ

    ب-أ-سك-و-نق-و-ل

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 7:5?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 7:5 include Quran 21:46 (Surah Al-Anbiyaa), Quran 7:165 (Surah Al-A'raaf), Quran 43:76 (Surah Az-Zukhruf), and Quran 68:30 (Surah Al-Qalam). For example, 21:46 reads: “And if [as much as] a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, "O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers."” 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 7:5 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 7:5 (Surah Al-A'raaf, The Heights) reads: “And their declaration when Our punishment came to them was only that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers!"”

Which surah is verse 7:5 in?

Quran 7:5 is āyah 5 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 7:5?

Tartīl presents Quran 7:5 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.