Surah As-Saaffaat · Ayah 21·Makkī

21

هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى بِهِۦ ﴿٢١﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

[They will be told], "This is the Day of Judgement which you used to deny."

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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 · 4 roots in 4 of 7 words

Recitation · 7 points across 4 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī4
  • Lām qamariyyah1
  • Ikhfāʾ1
  • Ikhfāʾ shafawī1

Commentary

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

Shape

7 words · 27 letters · āyah 21 of 182

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.

  • Quran 77:37 · Al-Mursalaatvery close

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Quran 77:29 · Al-Mursalaatvery close

    ٱنطَلِقُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ مَا كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ

    [They will be told], "Proceed to that which you used to deny.

  • Quran 77:39 · Al-Mursalaatvery close

    فَإِن كَانَ لَكُمْ كَيْدٌ فَكِيدُونِ

    So if you have a plan, then plan against Me.

  • Quran 77:35 · Al-Mursalaatvery close

    هَٰذَا يَوْمُ لَا يَنطِقُونَ

    This is a Day they will not speak,

  • Quran 77:50 · Al-Mursalaatclose

    فَبِأَىِّ حَدِيثٍۭ بَعْدَهُۥ يُؤْمِنُونَ

    Then in what statement after the Qur'an will they believe?

  • Quran 50:42 · Qaafclose

    يَوْمَ يَسْمَعُونَ ٱلصَّيْحَةَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُرُوجِ

    The Day they will hear the blast [of the Horn] in truth. That is the Day of Emergence [from the graves].

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 37:21?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 37:21 include Quran 77:37 (Surah Al-Mursalaat), Quran 77:29 (Surah Al-Mursalaat), Quran 77:39 (Surah Al-Mursalaat), and Quran 77:35 (Surah Al-Mursalaat). For example, 77:37 reads: “Woe, that Day, to the deniers.” 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 37:21 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 37:21 (Surah As-Saaffaat, Those drawn up in Ranks) reads: “[They will be told], "This is the Day of Judgement which you used to deny."”

Which surah is verse 37:21 in?

Quran 37:21 is āyah 21 of Surah As-Saaffaat (Those drawn up in Ranks), chapter 37 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 182 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 37:21?

Tartīl presents Quran 37:21 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.