Surah Saba · Ayah 51·Makkī

51

وَلَوْ إِذْ فَلَا مِن ﴿٥١﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And if you could see when they are terrified but there is no escape, and they will be seized from a place nearby.

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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 · 6 roots in 6 of 10 words

Rarest here: ف-و-ت 5× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 11 points across 4 rule families

  • Heavy rāʾ2
  • Madd munfaṣil6
  • Idghām (with ghunnah)2
  • Ghunnah1

Commentary

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

Shape

10 words · 35 letters · āyah 51 of 54

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.

  • وَإِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا۟ هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا

    And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein bound in chains, they will cry out thereupon for destruction.

  • وَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍ

    And leave them for a time.

  • وَلَئِنْ أَخَّرْنَا عَنْهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابَ إِلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍ مَّعْدُودَةٍ لَّيَقُولُنَّ مَا يَحْبِسُهُۥٓ أَلَا يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمْ لَيْسَ مَصْرُوفًا عَنْهُمْ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

    And if We hold back from them the punishment for a limited time, they will surely say, "What detains it?" Unquestionably, on the Day it comes to them, it will not be averted from…

  • مَّلْعُونِينَ أَيْنَمَا ثُقِفُوٓا۟ أُخِذُوا۟ وَقُتِّلُوا۟ تَقْتِيلًا

    Accursed wherever they are found, [being] seized and massacred completely.

  • وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَدْعُونَ مِن قَبْلُ وَظَنُّوا۟ مَا لَهُم مِّن مَّحِيصٍ

    And lost from them will be those they were invoking before, and they will be certain that they have no place of escape.

  • مَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً تَأْخُذُهُمْ وَهُمْ يَخِصِّمُونَ

    They do not await except one blast which will seize them while they are disputing.

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-Ma'aarij 70:72 shared roots

    وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا

    ق-ر-بر-أ-ي

  • Al-Waaqia 56:882 shared roots

    فَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ

    ق-ر-بك-و-ن

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:1032 shared roots

    لَا يَحْزُنُهُمُ ٱلْفَزَعُ ٱلْأَكْبَرُ وَتَتَلَقَّىٰهُمُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ هَٰذَا يَوْمُكُمُ ٱلَّذِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ

    ف-ز-عك-و-ن

  • Al-Mulk 67:32 shared roots

    ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا مَّا تَرَىٰ فِى خَلْقِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَٰوُتٍ فَٱرْجِعِ ٱلْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ

    ف-و-تر-أ-ي

  • Al-Ahqaf 46:283 shared roots

    فَلَوْلَا نَصَرَهُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ قُرْبَانًا ءَالِهَةًۢ بَلْ ضَلُّوا۟ عَنْهُمْ وَذَٰلِكَ إِفْكُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    ق-ر-بأ-خ-ذك-و-ن

  • Al-Furqaan 25:433 shared roots

    أَرَءَيْتَ مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُۥ هَوَىٰهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكِيلًا

    أ-خ-ذر-أ-يك-و-ن

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 34:51?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 34:51 include Quran 25:13 (Surah Al-Furqaan), Quran 37:178 (Surah As-Saaffaat), Quran 11:8 (Surah Hud), and Quran 33:61 (Surah Al-Ahzaab). For example, 25:13 reads: “And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein bound in chains, they will cry out thereupon for destruction.” 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 34:51 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 34:51 (Surah Saba, Sheba) reads: “And if you could see when they are terrified but there is no escape, and they will be seized from a place nearby.”

Which surah is verse 34:51 in?

Quran 34:51 is āyah 51 of Surah Saba (Sheba), chapter 34 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 54 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 34:51?

Tartīl presents Quran 34:51 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.