Surah An-Naml · Ayah 87·Makkī

87

فِى مَن فِى وَمَن فِى إِلَّا مَن ﴿٨٧﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And [warn of] the Day the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will be terrified except whom Allah wills. And all will come to Him humbled.

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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 · 11 roots in 11 of 18 words

Rarest here: د-خ-ر 4× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 21 points across 5 rule families

  • Ikhfāʾ5
  • Madd ṭabīʿī9
  • Lām shamsiyyah4
  • Light rāʾ2
  • Heavy Allāh1

Commentary

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

Shape

18 words · 63 letters · 1 proper noun · āyah 87 of 93

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.

  • وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَىٰ فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنظُرُونَ

    And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will fall dead except whom Allah wills. Then it will be blown again, and at once they will be…

  • يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ وَنَحْشُرُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا

    The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.

  • فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى ٱلنَّاقُورِ

    And when the trumpet is blown,

  • يَغْشَى ٱلنَّاسَ هَٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

    Covering the people; this is a painful torment.

  • أَزِفَتِ ٱلْـَٔازِفَةُ

    The Approaching Day has approached.

  • فَذَرْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى فِيهِ يُصْعَقُونَ

    So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck insensible -

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.

  • Qaaf 50:203 shared roots

    وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْوَعِيدِ

    ص-و-رن-ف-خي-و-م

  • Al-Haaqqa 69:132 shared roots

    فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ نَفْخَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ

    ص-و-رن-ف-خ

  • Az-Zumar 39:685 shared roots

    وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَىٰ فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنظُرُونَ

    ص-و-رن-ف-خس-م-وأ-ر-ضش-ي-أ

  • An-Naba 78:184 shared roots

    يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًا

    ص-و-رن-ف-خي-و-مأ-ت-ي

  • Al-An'aam 6:735 shared roots

    وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُ قَوْلُهُ ٱلْحَقُّ وَلَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ عَٰلِمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ وَهُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ

    ص-و-رن-ف-خس-م-وي-و-مأ-ر-ض

  • Al-Muminoon 23:1013 shared roots

    فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَلَآ أَنسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ

    ص-و-رن-ف-خي-و-م

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 27:87?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 27:87 include Quran 39:68 (Surah Az-Zumar), Quran 20:102 (Surah Taa-Haa), Quran 74:8 (Surah Al-Muddaththir), and Quran 44:11 (Surah Ad-Dukhaan). For example, 39:68 reads: “And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will fall dead except whom Allah wills. Then it will be blown again, and at once they will be…” 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 27:87 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 27:87 (Surah An-Naml, The Ant) reads: “And [warn of] the Day the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will be terrified except whom Allah wills. And all will come to Him humbled.”

Which surah is verse 27:87 in?

Quran 27:87 is āyah 87 of Surah An-Naml (The Ant), chapter 27 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 93 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 27:87?

Tartīl presents Quran 27:87 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.