Surah Qaaf · Ayah 6·Makkī

6

أَفَلَمْ إِلَى وَمَا لَهَا مِن ﴿٦﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?

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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 12 words

Rarest here: ف-ر-ج 9× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 17 points across 6 rule families

  • Iẓhār shafawī2
  • Ikhfāʾ2
  • Heavy rāʾ2
  • Madd ṭabīʿī9
  • Lām shamsiyyah1
  • Ghunnah1

Commentary

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

Shape

12 words · 51 letters · āyah 6 of 45

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.

  • أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَمْ أَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍ كَرِيمٍ

    Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?

  • أَفَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِن نَّشَأْ نَخْسِفْ بِهِمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ أَوْ نُسْقِطْ عَلَيْهِمْ كِسَفًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَةً لِّكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ

    Then, do they not look at what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and earth? If We should will, We could cause the earth to swallow them or [could] let fall upon…

  • وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا وَهُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ

    And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs, are turning away.

  • أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَٰدًا

    Have We not made the earth a resting place?

  • وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

    And at the sky - how it is raised?

  • وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَابًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَظَلُّوا۟ فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ

    And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

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-Mursalaat 77:92 shared roots

    وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ فُرِجَتْ

    ف-ر-جس-م-و

  • Al-Hijr 15:163 shared roots

    وَلَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجًا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا لِلنَّٰظِرِينَ

    ز-ي-نن-ظ-رس-م-و

  • Ash-Shams 91:52 shared roots

    وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا

    ب-ن-يس-م-و

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:912 shared roots

    وَٱلَّتِىٓ أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهَا مِن رُّوحِنَا وَجَعَلْنَٰهَا وَٱبْنَهَآ ءَايَةً لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ

    ف-ر-جب-ن-ي

  • An-Naba 78:122 shared roots

    وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا

    ف-و-قب-ن-ي

  • Saad 38:152 shared roots

    وَمَا يَنظُرُ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً مَّا لَهَا مِن فَوَاقٍ

    ف-و-قن-ظ-ر

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 50:6?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 50:6 include Quran 26:7 (Surah Ash-Shu'araa), Quran 34:9 (Surah Saba), Quran 21:32 (Surah Al-Anbiyaa), and Quran 78:6 (Surah An-Naba). For example, 26:7 reads: “Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?” 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 50:6 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 50:6 (Surah Qaaf, The letter Qaaf) reads: “Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?”

Which surah is verse 50:6 in?

Quran 50:6 is āyah 6 of Surah Qaaf (The letter Qaaf), chapter 50 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 45 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 50:6?

Tartīl presents Quran 50:6 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.