Surah Ar-Room · Ayah 16·Makkī

16

وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ﴿١٦﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our verses and the meeting of the Hereafter, those will be brought into the punishment [to remain].

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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 · 7 roots in 7 of 11 words

Recitation · 18 points across 4 rule families

  • Ghunnah1
  • Madd ṭabīʿī12
  • Heavy rāʾ3
  • Lām qamariyyah2

Commentary

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

Shape

11 words · 59 letters · āyah 16 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.

  • وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ

    And they who disbelieved and denied Our signs - for those there will be a humiliating punishment.

  • وَٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَمَسُّهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

    But those who deny Our verses - the punishment will touch them for their defiant disobedience.

  • وَٱلَّذِينَ يَسْعَوْنَ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا مُعَٰجِزِينَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ مُحْضَرُونَ

    And the ones who strive against Our verses to cause [them] failure - those will be brought into the punishment [to remain].

  • يَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِٱلْعَذَابِ وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمُحِيطَةٌۢ بِٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ

    They urge you to hasten the punishment. And indeed, Hell will be encompassing of the disbelievers

  • وَأَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

    And that those who do not believe in the Hereafter - We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

  • فَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فَأُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن نَّٰصِرِينَ

    And as for those who disbelieved, I will punish them with a severe punishment in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers."

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 37:1272 shared roots

    فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَمُحْضَرُونَ

    ح-ض-رك-ذ-ب

  • Saba 34:383 shared roots

    وَٱلَّذِينَ يَسْعَوْنَ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا مُعَٰجِزِينَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ مُحْضَرُونَ

    ح-ض-رع-ذ-بأ-ي-ي

  • Qaaf 50:263 shared roots

    ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَأَلْقِيَاهُ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلشَّدِيدِ

    ل-ق-يأ-خ-رع-ذ-ب

  • Al-Burooj 85:192 shared roots

    بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فِى تَكْذِيبٍ

    ك-ذ-بك-ف-ر

  • Al-Inshiqaaq 84:222 shared roots

    بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُكَذِّبُونَ

    ك-ذ-بك-ف-ر

  • Al-A'raaf 7:1474 shared roots

    وَٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَلِقَآءِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ هَلْ يُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

    ل-ق-يأ-خ-رك-ذ-بأ-ي-ي

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 30:16?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 30:16 include Quran 22:57 (Surah Al-Hajj), Quran 6:49 (Surah Al-An'aam), Quran 34:38 (Surah Saba), and Quran 29:54 (Surah Al-Ankaboot). For example, 22:57 reads: “And they who disbelieved and denied Our signs - for those there will be a humiliating punishment.” 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 30:16 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 30:16 (Surah Ar-Room, The Romans) reads: “But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our verses and the meeting of the Hereafter, those will be brought into the punishment [to remain].”

Which surah is verse 30:16 in?

Quran 30:16 is āyah 16 of Surah Ar-Room (The Romans), chapter 30 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 60 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 30:16?

Tartīl presents Quran 30:16 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.