Surah An-Noor · Ayah 12·Madanī

12

لَّوْلَآ إِذْ هَٰذَآ ﴿١٢﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?

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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 12 words

Recitation · 16 points across 6 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī7
  • Ghunnah2
  • Lām qamariyyah2
  • Ikhfāʾ3
  • Iẓhār shafawī1
  • Heavy rāʾ1

Commentary

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

Shape

12 words · 58 letters · āyah 12 of 64

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.

  • وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَوْ كَانَ خَيْرًا مَّا سَبَقُونَآ إِلَيْهِ وَإِذْ لَمْ يَهْتَدُوا۟ بِهِۦ فَسَيَقُولُونَ هَٰذَآ إِفْكٌ قَدِيمٌ

    And those who disbelieve say of those who believe, "If it had [truly] been good, they would not have preceded us to it." And when they are not guided by it, they will say, "This…

  • بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُوا۟ بِعِلْمِهِۦ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِهِمْ تَأْوِيلُهُۥ كَذَٰلِكَ كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    Rather, they have denied that which they encompass not in knowledge and whose interpretation has not yet come to them. Thus did those before them deny. Then observe how was the…

  • فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ مِنْ عِندِنَا قَالُوا۟ ٱقْتُلُوٓا۟ أَبْنَآءَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ وَٱسْتَحْيُوا۟ نِسَآءَهُمْ وَمَا كَيْدُ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ إِلَّا فِى ضَلَٰلٍ

    And when he brought them the truth from Us, they said, "Kill the sons of those who have believed with him and keep their women alive." But the plan of the disbelievers is not…

  • قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُنَا وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ مِن شَىْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا تَكْذِبُونَ

    They said, "You are not but human beings like us, and the Most Merciful has not revealed a thing. You are only telling lies."

  • يَٰٓأَهْلَ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ لِمَ تَلْبِسُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ بِٱلْبَٰطِلِ وَتَكْتُمُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

    O People of the Scripture, why do you confuse the truth with falsehood and conceal the truth while you know [it]?

  • يَقُولُ أَءِنَّكَ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُصَدِّقِينَ

    Who would say, 'Are you indeed of those who believe

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.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:1512 shared roots

    أَلَآ إِنَّهُم مِّنْ إِفْكِهِمْ لَيَقُولُونَ

    أ-ف-كق-و-ل

  • Al-Ahqaf 46:114 shared roots

    وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَوْ كَانَ خَيْرًا مَّا سَبَقُونَآ إِلَيْهِ وَإِذْ لَمْ يَهْتَدُوا۟ بِهِۦ فَسَيَقُولُونَ هَٰذَآ إِفْكٌ قَدِيمٌ

    أ-ف-كخ-ي-رأ-م-نق-و-ل

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:872 shared roots

    وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ

    أ-ف-كق-و-ل

  • Yaseen 36:252 shared roots

    إِنِّىٓ ءَامَنتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَٱسْمَعُونِ

    س-م-عأ-م-ن

  • Taa-Haa 20:132 shared roots

    وَأَنَا ٱخْتَرْتُكَ فَٱسْتَمِعْ لِمَا يُوحَىٰٓ

    س-م-عخ-ي-ر

  • Al-Anfaal 8:212 shared roots

    وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ سَمِعْنَا وَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

    س-م-عق-و-ل

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 24:12?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 24:12 include Quran 46:11 (Surah Al-Ahqaf), Quran 10:39 (Surah Yunus), Quran 40:25 (Surah Al-Ghaafir), and Quran 36:15 (Surah Yaseen). For example, 46:11 reads: “And those who disbelieve say of those who believe, "If it had [truly] been good, they would not have preceded us to it." And when they are not guided by it, they will say, "This…” 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 24:12 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 24:12 (Surah An-Noor, The Light) reads: “Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?”

Which surah is verse 24:12 in?

Quran 24:12 is āyah 12 of Surah An-Noor (The Light), chapter 24 of the Qurʾān — a Medinan (Madanī) surah of 64 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 24:12?

Tartīl presents Quran 24:12 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.